“FROM THE FILM SET OF CORIOLANUS” by Kalpesh Lathigra on Photo Booth on the New Yorker

January 23rd, 2012 by dmb media

This week Anthony Lane reviews Ralph Fiennes’s film adaption of Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus.” The photographer Kalpesh Lathigra took the production as an opportunity to shoot two different projects—although, he admitted, he hadn’t read the play. “Julius Caesar was my Shakespeare,” he told me. The first project, was a more conventional series of production stills. The second was a series of large-format photographs, shot with a 5×4 camera, “where the actors are not the prominent players on stage but merely part of the wider tableaux of the set,” Lathigra said. Here’s a selection of those images.

Read more here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth#ixzz1kITQXIzO

See more of Kalpesh’s work here: http://dmbmedia.co.uk/artists/kalpesh-lathigra/photography/

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