Make $#!+ Happen

What is it about celebrities that fascinate us as a culture? After all, they are just human beings like the rest of us.

Why do we catch ourselves wondering about their lives, where they go, where they live, who they are seen with and what will they be up to next?

We follow their every move, catch the latest gossip, seek their autographs and photos and listen to their music, watch their movies or TV shows and immerse ourselves into their lives. It’s the ultimate wish fulfillment.

Davis Factor knows all this and is able to capture the essence of said celebrities in a series of stunning (and sometimes controversial) images. His photography features some of the best celebrity portraits in the world and somehow manages to capture the personality and quirkiness of each famous person.

Factor’s Smashbox Studios is famous for taking photos of celebrities when they are all dolled up with cosmetics from Smashbox.

The name Factor may sound familiar-it should. Max Factor was the head of the premiere makeup studio to the stars in the heyday of Hollywood glamour.

Davis and Dean Factor are the great-grandsons of Max Factor.

Pictured inside the book are such celebrities as Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, Angelina Jolie and many more.

Included with the photos is insightful text by the author recounting his experience, photos shoots and relationships with the various celebrities.

The enormous hardbound Make $#!+ Happen book is published by Rizzoli New York and features a stunning dust jacket, huge, full page black and white and full color, posed and candid photos and is written by Davis Factor, with contributions by Robert Downey Jr.

It’s a stunning piece of work worthy to grace the shelves of any library or brighten up any coffee table.

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” — Ephesians 2:8-9