Young Elizabeth Taylor

Depending upon setting, lighting, processing, a classic beauty transforms into other classic beauties. Every day I work on the thousands of images we took over the three-day shoot, I find another image, Ingrid Bergman, Isabella Rosallini, Elizabeth Taylor. I am sure to find Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Katherine Heyburn.

Yet, when I find these hidden personae, I discover the original beauty pales in comparison, somehow to Isa's untainted beauty. Isa is my muse, my alter ego, the object of my photographical exploration experimenting with filters and light, grain and vignettes to achieve a mood coherent with the image she reveals to me.