Celebrity Photographer Finds New Focus…
October 21, 2006 (PRLEAP.COM) Entertainment News
Internationally acclaimed celebrity photographer, Waring Abbott turns his camera towards nature. After 30 years of photographing presidents, musicians, actors and writers Abbott starts online gallery, ArtOnYourWall.Com filled with non-celebrity nature prints.What do YoYo Ma, Henry Kissinger and The Rolling Stones have in common with glistening snow scenes, vibrant floral close ups, and cool contemporary images? They all have been photographed by Waring Abbott.
Abbott began his career with a photo of Kurt Vonnegut holding a bunny rabbit. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, People, US, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and countless foreign publications. Celebrities from the worlds of punk rock to classical pianists were the subjects for cd covers and magazine articles. During all of this he created the bestselling book KISS The Early Years (Crown).
After 35 years of celebrity photography in his NYC Tribeca studio, he moved to the Hudson Valley, 45 miles north, in search of trees and more space. What he found has inspired a collection of signed, limited edition nature photographs—located at ArtOnYourWall.Com.