Nino Muñoz - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Nino Muñoz is a fashion, celebrity, and beauty photographer.

Career

In the mid 1990's Muñoz moved to New York City to begin his career in photography. In New York he studied under American fashion photographer Bob Richardson

Bob Richardson (photographer)

Bob George Richardson was an American fashion photographer. He is credited with bringing a street aesthetic and visceralness into fashion photography...

, and has photographed stories for many well-known magazines, including InStyle, Harper's Bazaar, Giant, Wallpaper, Jalouse, Numero, Muse, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times Magazine.

In 1999 Muñoz's first professional assignment was shooting a fashion story for British Vogue with Gisele Bündchen

Gisele Bündchen

Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian fashion model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Environment Programme.In the late 1990s, Bündchen became one of the first in a wave of Brazilian models to find success...

. In 2008, Muñoz and Bündchen collaborated to celebrate the 30th anniversary of American Photo magazine. Muñoz has continued to work with Bündchen throughout his career and has photographed some of Hollywood's finest such as, Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won three Golden Globe Awards....

, Hillary Swank, Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has received many awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator , and has been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television...

, Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore is an American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards....

, Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle

Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle, Jr. is an American film actor and producer. Cheadle rose to prominence in the late 1990s and the early 2000s for his supporting roles in the Steven Soderbergh-directed films Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean's Eleven...

, Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody

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, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Margaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal born November 16, 1977) is an American actress. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She made her screen debut when she began to appear in her father's films...

, Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell

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, Jay-Z

Jay-Z

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, Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera

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, Beyonce, Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig

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, and Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal

Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age ten...

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In a story on Muñoz called "Coasting West," the photography journal PhotoIcon wrote: "The extensive beaches of Southern California and the glitter of Los Angeles was a spiritual homecoming for Nino Muñoz. His experience of New York's fashion world made the move to photographing the Hollywood celebrity circuit a natural progression—and Nino's natural charm and warm personality has made him a popular society snapper in Hollywood."

He is also an advertising photographer, with clients such as Victoria's Secret

Victoria's Secret

Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...

, True Religion

True Religion

True Religion Brand Jeans is an American premium clothing line, established in December of 2002 by Jeffrey Lubell and co-founder Kym Gold.In the winter of 2002, True Religion debuted its denim products from its Los Angeles base...

, Vero Moda, and London Fog

London fog

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A selection of Nino's photographs are currently part of the Beauty CULTure exhibit at the Annenberg Space for photography in Los Angeles, California. The exhibit runs May 21, 2011 to November 27, 2011.

Muñoz is represented by Stockland Martel

Stockland Martel

Stockland Martel is a photo-representation agency headquartered in New York and founded in 1983 by Bill Stockland and Maureen Martel . The first person they signed was Walter Iooss, and in the years since they have developed a diverse international roster of award-winning photographers...

Personal life

While living in Los Angeles California Nino began to volunteer his time to the non-profit organization The Art of Elysium. In 2007 Muñoz paired-up with The Art of Elysium and French Connection to host an exhibit of his photos that went to benefit that charity.

External links

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