Mark Gordon

Whether the pictures are moving or stills, Mark Gordon is always at home behind the lens. Hehas served as Director of Photography on more than a dozen film, television and commercialprojects that range from "Rock The Vote" PSA's for MTV, documentaries for Financial NewsNetwork, and the feature DEMENTIA for Fledgling Films. Gordon interned withcinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond on Brian de Palma's BONFIRE OF THE VANIIIES forWarner Brothers. In 1990, Gordon received the Sherril C. Corwin/Tommy Gross Scholarship,the highest award the American Film Institute bestows on a cinematography fellow.

Gordon also boasts significant credentials in still photography: As founder of Preferred StockPhotography, he oversees the company's library of over 100,000 images, which are currentlyleased in eight countries. He has worked as a motion picture advertising photographer on nearlya score of feature campaigns, including BIG, MIDNIGHT RUN, THE NAKED GUN,COUNTRY, THREE AMIGOS, and PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES. As acommercial photographer, his clients have included AT&T, Coca- Cola, Walt DisneyProductions, Honda, McDonalds, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Brothers.

Gordon received considerable training from celebrity photographers Brigitte Lacombe, WayneMaser, Steve Schapiro and Bert Stern, with whom he collaborated to produce magazine coversand layouts for Vanity Fair, Interview, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Glamour.