How exactly does someone go from future fighter pilot to aspiring aeronautical engineer to professional political scientist and end-up studying experimental and documentary arts?
Primary Influences
Physicists
Photographers
- Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor
- Edward Weston
- Gary Monroe
- Imogen Cunningham
- Joel Sternfeld
- Paul Shambroom
- Susan Meiselas
- Zalmai
Culinary creatives
Mixed-media artists
Audio Odysseys
Filmmakers and Films
- Wes Anderson and Robert Yeoman – Bottle Rocket (1996) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2000)
- Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1965)
- Star Wars (1977) – dir., George Lucas
- The War Room (1993) – dir., D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus
Cautionary tales
- The Staircase (2004) – dir., Xavier de LeStrade
Secondary Influences
Poets
John Donne (1572–1631) – Elegy XIX: To his mistress upon going to bed
Photographers
Yousuf Karsh
Platon Antoniou
Patrick Demarchelier
Steve McCurry
Philippe Halsman
Nan Goldin
Rankin
Larry Sultan
Filmmakers and Films
Laura Poitras
Apocalypse Now (1979) – dir., Francis Ford Coppola
Amadeus (1984) – dir., Milos Forman