All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links.
Photographer Clay Enos' rich portraits of costumed crime-fighters play an important part in Zack Snyder's recent big-screen adaptation of Watchmen.
Enos' faux documentary photos appear throughout the film, providing gorgeous visuals that help flesh out the back story of the flawed superheroes from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic book series. A series of black-and-white portraits of the movie's stars and extras appear in Enos' art book, Watchmen: Portraits.
Want to know what F-stop Enos used to photograph Doctor Manhattan's best bits? Now is your chance.
The publicity photographer will be showing behind-the-scenes photos from the Watchmen set and sharing his photographic expertise Thursday at the Apple Store in San Francisco.
When Enos gave his talk in New York, the audience was a mix of Watchmen fans and photographers, so he concentrated on the film's intense imagery.
"I make a point of keeping the talk fairly photo-centric, steering clear of gossip and squids," said the professional lensman, who also runs the Organic Coffee Cartel and tells a great story.
Watchmen marked Enos' first time taking publicity photos for a feature film. He works mostly in documentary and commercial photography, and it shows: His documentary background shines through in his portraits, which are raw and untouched, more Diane Arbus than Hollywood Botox.
Enos says he will "begin the talk with a little background of my photographic approach and the path that brought me to the set of Watchmen." He plans to show about 800 images in 45 minutes.
Once the photographic frenzy has finished, he'll take questions from the audience. Enos says that's his favorite part.
Here's my question: How did Silk Spectre II fit into that skintight costume? And how did it stay on during the fight scenes? Ouch.
- - -
Clay Enos' presentation starts at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Apple Store, 1 Stockton St., San Francisco.
See also:
- Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie
- Review: Watchmen Film Straddles Line Between Loyalty, Heresy
- Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League and Making Magic
- Archaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave Gibbons
- Review: Watchmen Actors Trumped by Awesome Visuals
