Esquire magazine has commissioned Lincoln Schatz to do a series of Cube portraits of the most influential people of the 21st Century. This project, entitled Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century by Lincoln Schatz will span several months and include dozens of people. It is a companion piece for Esquire’s October 75th Anniversary issue, which will name the 75 most influential people of the 21st Century. Both the completed portrait and the anniversary issue will be unveiled in September. The Cube project is currently installed in the North Gallery at Hearst Tower in NYC.
Some of the recent portraits include: George Clooney, who danced with ten women in the Cube; Jeff Bezos, who read a friend’s novel on his Amazon Kindle; Marc Jacobs, who spent his time doing yoga with his instructor; Momofuku chef and owner David Chang, who guzzled Pabst Blue Ribbon with three of his chefs; Santiago Calatrava, who created a series of conceptual drawings; and Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, who worked on rocket designs in the Cube. Video from the sessions can be found at www.lincolnschatz.com and at www.esquire.com/cube.
“Anniversaries are typically a time to look back, but for Esquire, it’s an opportunity to look forward,” says Esquire Editor-in-Chief David Granger. “Our 75th Anniversary is about the people, ideas and issues that will begin to define the 21st Century, and Lincoln’s Cube is an entirely new way to capture many of them in a single dynamic portrait.”