Lickshot: A Photo Scrapbook by Ben Watts

Lickshot is photographer Ben Watts highly personalized scrapbook and travel diary. A triumph of lo-fi style, Lickshot reflects the incredible variety of Watts photographic subjects — high school ice skaters, Brooklyn biker gangs, and lounging sunbathers to world-famous actors, supermodels, and todays hottest musicians. The book includes photos of Heath Ledger, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Rachel Weisz, Guy Pearce, Adrien Brody, Bruce Springsteen, Lil Wayne, Lou Reed, Jay-Z, Coldplay, T.I., Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, André 3000, B. B. King, Mary J. Blige, and Ben Harper.

Ben Watts is a New York-based photographer who shoots advertising campaigns for Nike, Polo Ralph Lauren, Miller Lite, Kodak, the Gap, Sony Music, and Apple, and he is a regular contributor to numerous magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Interview, Rolling Stone, VIBE, Esquire, Elle, Vanity Fair, Harpers Bazaar, and Conde Nast Traveler. Watts has contributed to several group exhibitions and has had a solo exhibition at Milk Gallery in New York City.

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[brittanyxocoldplay]

yay coldplay at 0:30 (: this is very cool.