BIG SHOTS! VOLUME ONE
BIG SHOTS! VOLUME ONE
“I met Phillip way back, in ’95 or ’96, and he was always the guy who would say, ‘Let’s take a picture’.”
–Pharrell Williams. From the Introduction to Big Shots!
Just as Andy Warhol: Red Books defined a generation of artists, similarly BIG SHOTS! is a collection of photographs that captures the energy of the world of hip-hop and the greater worlds of music and fashion alike. Shot by Phillip Leeds on a vintage Polaroid camera called The Big Shot, these photographs offer a visual record of hip-hop and fashion and culture from the 2004 through to the present.
A compilation of previously unpublished work documenting some of the biggest names in hip-hop and fashion, BIG SHOTS! offers more than 350 Polaroids of artists and figures including Beck, Andre Leon Talley, Gwen Stefani, Paloma Faith, Lewis Hamilton, Jay Z, Questlove, and Rita Ora, to name a few. BIG SHOTS! gives readers a unique look into an era of music and fashion as it crossed in front of Phillip’s camera and shared through the ever-nostalgic format of the Polaroid.
"The fashion world, of course, loves nothing more than something it can’t get its hands on. Cue the recent books that elevate the Polaroid to art object, with celebrities as their subject. “I feel like, right now, it’s almost like the last hurrah,” said Phillip Leeds, a photographer whose book of star-studded Polaroids, 'Big Shots,' will be released in March by Rizzoli ($24.95, 304 pp.), with Rita Ora on the cover and entertainers, including Pharrell Williams, who wrote the introduction, inside."
—New York Times
