Duane Michals

Meryl Streep, the most celebrated actress of our time, 1975.
Stars of the film Taxi Driver, Robert DeNiro and Harvey Keitel, 1976.
Andy Warhol, the Pop Artist who made a career out of Campbell's Soup cans, 1972.
British painter David Hockney and friend, 1975.
Influential conceptual artist and chess player Marcel Duchamp, 1964.
Duane Michals with Robin Williams, c. 1980, after his success on the TV seriesMork and Mindy) and before his first film starring role in Popeye.
Poet Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1970.
Buster Keaton, patron saint of silent-film slapstick, 1965.
Martin Scorsese, masterful director of Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Raging Bull, 1970s.
Versatile actor Robert Duvall, 1964.
Johnny Cash, no small change as a country singer, 1970s.
Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte, photographed at his home in Brussels, 1965.

Fame is its own reward. Faces have become celebrities' brands, as instantly identifiable as a Heinz Ketchup label. Fans are impressed that the photographer was actually in the presence of Angelina Jolie, and somehow her fame has spilled onto the photographer and anointed him with spin-off glamor. Cheap thrills.
  The acclaim of some high-profile portrait photographers rests exclusively on head-shots puffing Hollywood glitterati. As photographs, they are essentially passport pictures, which have been garnished with theatrical lighting. There is something to be said for the honesty of actual passport pictures.