Self Portrait | Episode 405

 

 

 

 

Self Portrait | Episode 405

When Claire does these self-portraits for a class, Nate looks at them and says, 'Oh, are you trying to be a model or something?' And Claire gets very offended, because she's going for something very arty in these. But in her self-conscious, empty gaze, what she's going for is very superficial and mannered, and her teacher makes her realize that.

Alan Poul- Executive Producer

 

 

 

 

 

I got to spend a few hours with Lauren and had the benefit of the entire grip department and set dec, and we went across the street in this little neighborhood in Hollywood. We actually started using people's front lawns and sidewalks and wrought iron junk piles. She was in this beautiful antique lace nightgown and it was really fun, intimate and sexy. It was a lot like the shoots I had done in college.
Claire's class caught her in the classic art school trap of not having a rationale for what she was doing. I thought that was really interesting, because that used to happen to me in art school all the time. I came to realize that it was more about the dialog you could lay on people about what you were trying to accomplish than what you had actually accomplished.

Doug Hyun- Photographer