A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Lauri Gaffin's discerning eye is clearly visible in her exceptional photographs. She captures images of people, of nature, or even the artificiality of a movie set, with only natural light and in full frame, rarely altering her intuition about the shuttered moment. Hence, her photographs record her subjects as they really exist, yet each one is infused with her subtle and poetic point of view. Her photographs speak with a pictorial eloquence that communicates her whimsical sense of humour and her irresistible attraction to beauty. Lauri Gaffin has been a photographer since the 1970s while also pursuing her "day job" as an exceptionally successful set decorator for feature films. Her photographs have appeared in popular titles such as Fargo, The Pursuit of Happyness, Six Days Seven Nights, The Ring II, Charlie's Angels I & II, Ironman I & II, and Thor. Lauri earned her BA in Photography at UCLA in 1975, having studied primarily with Robert Heineken and with artists Peter Goulds, Rita Yokoi, and filmmaker Shirley Clark. She received an M.F.A. from California Institute of Fine Arts in 1977, mentored by conceptual artist John Baldessari. At CalArts, she studied with Lauri Anderson, John Mandel, Michael Kelly, and Doug Huebler. Information above via their homepage.
Set Decoration:
1986 Slow Burn
1989 Big Man on Campus
1991 Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
1991 Wedlock
1992 Ruby
1996 Fargo
1997 Fathers' Day
1998 Lethal Weapon 4
1998 Six Days Seven Nights
1999 House on Haunted Hill
1999 Tuesdays with Morrie
2000 Charlie's Angels
2000 Mission: Impossible II
2001 Evolution
2002 Mr. Deeds
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2005 The Ring Two
2005 Zathura: A Space Adventure
2006 The Pursuit of Happyness
2009 Land of the Lost
2010 Iron Man 2
2011 Thor
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 The House
2019 Captain Marvel
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.