George Lange Kobe Bryant

Who: Kobe Bryant
Date: 8/24/97
What: Assignment for Sports Illustrated
Where: Los Angeles

We built this 40’s hotel room set in a photo studio in LA.. It was a story on what athletes do in their hotel rooms. Kobe said he spent his time on his laptop. Check out the Bryant sign outside the window. Kobe was super easy to shoot and a consummate professional. There is an outtake from this shoot with his finger up to his lips like he is whispering to the camera. It haunts me.

About George Lange has worked for Duane Michals and Annie Leibovitz before establishing his own career. His work has appeared in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Esquire, People and The New York Times, among other publications. He shot many of the iconic images from Friends, Frasier, Dawson’s Creek, and Seinfeld, as well as Sophia Loren, ads for and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. 

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