Esquire’s Portrait of the 21st Century is a massive video art installation commissioned by the Hearst Corporation in celebration of Esquire magazine’s 75th anniversary.
The installation includes generative portraits of Marc Jacobs, Samantha Power, Santiago Calatrava, LeBron James, George Clooney, David Chang, Jeff Bezos, Danger Mouse, Elon Musk, Ken Griffin, Noah Feldman, M.I.A., Jay Keasling, and others.
Schatz created the portraits using his Cube, a ten-foot-by-ten-foot sculptural portrait environment fitted with 24 cameras that was shown at PULSE Miami 2007. Capturing each subject in thousands of video files, Lincoln Schatz’s portraits perpetually evolve to reconfigure perception and reorder time.