Saturday, July 18, 2015

Jonathan Leder

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Sometimes with a photograph, it feels like you could blow on it and it would disappear. The digital camera sees so much and everything becomes so sharp, you lose that experiential quality.” Peeling back the layers of synthesised American culture to expose a simpler beauty, Jonathan Leder is one of a growing number of photographers rejecting “cheap and nasty” erotic imagery in favour of something more sophisticated...

http://www.hungertv.com/photography/feature/jonathan-leder-american-beauty/

http://www.jonathanleder.com/

Fashion & Style

Taking Pornography Low Tech

By MATT HABEROCT. 1, 2010

“HOLD it.” Jonathan Leder was standing behind a tripod on the porch of a musty, wood-shingle house in West Kill, N.Y., pointing his camera at a 19-year-old model, Britney Nola, who was wearing nothing but an unbuttoned pink shirt from American Apparel and a pair of slouchy blue socks.

Ms. Nola, who bears a passing resemblance to a young Brigitte Bardot, stood frozen by a screen door. Behind her, the bedroom evoked the faded glamour of this Borscht Belt region — wood paneling, wood-grain television console and unironic deer heads...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/fashion/03porn.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1

purple TELEVISION

AMERICAN ECSTASY PREVIEW BY JONATHAN LEDER sex
16/01/2014

Purple TV presents an exclusive sneak preview of the unreleased and unfinished feature film American Ecstasy by photographer and filmmaker Jonathan Leder. An anthology film exploring tales of resilient women gasping in the hands of a mad everyman. This everyman though is loosly based on the real life doings of James Mitchell DeBardeleben, a serial sexual sadist. DeBardeleben was first caught for passing counterfeit bills which led to discovery of tape recordings of intense torture sessions, often scripted, with women. Police described their findings as "the best documented sexual sadist since the Marquis de Sade." The film pulls from different classic films such as Repulsion, Straw Dogs, L’Avventura, Fellini’s 8 1/2, and Persona, to name a few. This erotic nightmare psychological thriller American Ecstasy, starring the November 2012 Playboy Playmate Britany Nola, Amy Hood, Lindsay Roan, among other rising female actors, is yet to be completed as Leder states, "At the moment we have about 40 hours of footage 'in the can' but still we are very much in production. The film has been evolving over the past couple years and maturing like a wine. I think I will let that process continue a bit longer until we really have all the footage we need to be able to cut it together. I hate to rush, and since I really hope to create something interesting for people, I enjoy the process of taking the time. The goal is for the final film to achieve the balance of art, entertainment, and to take people just a little out of their comfort zone, all at the same time." close info

Directed by Jonathan Leder
Starring Britany Nola, Robert Kirkland, Christian DeBoer, Amy Hood, and Lindsay Roan
Casting by Louise Roberts
Screenplay by Noah Wunsch
Produced by Jonathan Leder and Hunter Stephenson

http://purple.fr/television/sex/american-ecstasy

http://www.imperial-publishing.com/

https://vimeo.com/39532195