User:Ineluctubd/Robyn Von Swank

Biography
She grew up in Victoria, British Columbia and moved to Los Angeles in 2006. In Hollywood, Robyn frequented the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and began her career by photographing many of the comedians performing there. The acclaim of her work at the UCB Theater led her to specialize in photographing promotional materials for film, television, music, magazines, and books.

Work
Von Swank is best known for her diegetic portraiture, in which she poses her subject within a detailed set creating a fictional scene, as if it were a still from a lost movie.

Subjects

 * Jeff Goldblum
 * Ben Stiller
 * Zach Galifianakis
 * Sarah Silverman
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic
 * Jenny McCarthy
 * Patton Oswalt
 * Aziz Ansari
 * Lizzy Caplan
 * Thomas Lennon
 * Robert Ben Garant

Clients

 * Harperscollins Publishers
 * Simon and Schuster Inc
 * Sony Music
 * FX Network
 * Adult Swim
 * Comedy Central
 * MTV
 * Current TV
 * Red Hour Films
 * College Humor
 * Funny Or Die
 * Dumbdumb
 * LA Times
 * New York Post
 * Time Magazine
 * Variety Magazine
 * Culture Magazine
 * AST Records
 * New Wave Records
 * Stand Up! Records

Book Covers
Von Swank's work has been featured on the covers of many books including:
 * Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!

Music Covers

 * "Alpocalypse"

Interests
Von Swank is an enthusiast of weird, dark, lowbrow, American culture, and is a collector of antique objects. She is also a fan of early photography, such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes.