With an exacting eye for celebrities and their possessions, the Swiss-born, New York-based photographer Henry Leutwyler has portrayed the faces and the lives of the famous for virtually every one of the world's most prominent magazines. Leutwyler has a gift for the meticulous rendering of possessions and culturally significant artifacts (Andy Warhol's paintbrush, Bob Dylan's harmonica, Janis Joplin's guitar), and The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up presents his record of the contents of the late Michael Jackson's famous Peter Pan paradise at the Neverland Ranch, in Santa Barbara, California. Leutwyler gained privileged access to Jackson's possessions when they were due to be auctioned off (but were eventually withdrawn), shortly before Jackson's death on June 25, 2009. Creating incredible taxonomies of Jackson's huge array of possessions, as they were briefly exhibited at the Ranch, Leutwyler subjects these items to a degree of scrutiny that makes the viewer feel she or he could slip on one of those iconic spangly gloves. It is of course Jackson's performance accessories-the accessories by which he was instantly identifiable to all, such as the gloves, the hats and shoes-that leap out of this fascinating volume. Laying bare the components and props of the Michael Jackson myth, these photographs create a strange and fantastical visual story of The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, at the moment he was forced to leave Neverland.
國際知名攝影師Henry Leutwyler，以捕捉名人及他們的招牌隨身物為名 (如安迪沃荷的筆刷、鮑伯狄倫的口琴)。 他在去年麥可夢幻樂園拍賣前 (雖然後來不賣了)，特別獲准前往樂園裡拍攝麥可具指標的表演物件，例如手套、舞鞋、帽子。
