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Clockwise from right: "Kate Moss" and "Christy Turlington"; a portrat of Watson by Gloria Rodriguez. Andy Warhol, David Bowie and Prince. Watson is also a prolific art photgrapher. In "Teacup," which is part of the PBPC exhibition, a nude model is dominated by an enormous Shades-of- Dali teacup. Supermodels take center stage: a nude Kate Moss resembles a pensive-yet-chic woodland creature; Christy Turlington, surrounded by a tendril of ominous cigarette smoke, radiates take-no-prisoners cool. One of NeJame's favorite pieces is Watson's first celebrity portrait, a 1973 Harper's Bazaar photograph of Alfred Hitchcock, with a bemused Hitchcock holding aloft a skinned duck. To NeJame, who also co-founded PBPC, Watson's photo of Hitchcock embodies Hitchcock's essence, "so funny, so macabre, and ultimately, so cool." Watson, who made his Vogue debut in 1976, has always had a gift for fashion: in 1970, he shot a Rudi Gernreich swimwear campaign, and went on to shoot campaigns for Prada and Chanel. Over the years, Watson's travel photography has captured snake charmers in Morocco and a children's ballet company in Bejing. His commercial work includes a movie poster for "Memoirs of a Geisha," a 1975 Grammy for a Mason Proffit album cover, and directing more than 100 television commercials. Watson is also no slouch in the arty erotica department: his studies of a Las Vegas dominatrix in black kink gear recall the best of Helmut Newton. This is a life crowded with glamour, guts, and genius, and as Watson writes on his website, he's ultimately looking to "create an aura that takes the viewer into the image, but simultaneously demands a reverent distance." All hail the photographic gaze. 212 BAL HARBOUR One of NeJame's favorite pieces is Watson's first celebrity portrait, a 1973 Harper's Bazaar photograph of Alfred Hitchcock, with a bemused Hitchcock holding aloft a skinned duck.

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