Tom Munro

One of today's foremost fashion and celebrity photographers, Tom Munro has been making defining images since the mid-1990s. Munro achieves his results by encouraging his subjects to reinterpret their personalities for his lens, reveling in seductive roleplay or darkly-lit melodrama. The subjects gathered here include some of the biggest names in pop culture today. This volume – Munro's first monograph – affirms his status as a portraitist of the first rank. English by birth, Tom Munro moved to New York in 1990, embarking on his own career as a photographer in 1997, and achieving overnight success with his early editorial shoots for British Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Over the last ten years, Munro has contributed to some of the world's most prestigious magazine publications including Vogue, Italian Vogue, L'Uomo Vogue, Russian Vogue, China Vogue and Details. Munro's dedication to his craft has attracted some of the fashion and beauty industries' most prestigious names, as well as music icons such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and Madonna. Most recently Munro directed Madonna's music video Give it to Me, the success of which led to him directing a second video, Die Another Day, and shooting the book for her Sticky and Sweet world tour. Portraits: Ashton Kutcher, Brooke Shields, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christina Ricci, Courtney Love, Daniel Craig, Dustin Hoffman, Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Aniston, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Justin Timberlake, Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna, Marion Cotillard, Matt Dillon, Matthew McConaughey, Rob Lowe, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Cruise, Lady Gaga...