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Story behind faces
Mark Story knows faces.
In his 23 years as an A-list commercial director Story sat through thousands and thousands of casting sessions.
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I was always looking for interesting faces, says Story, who specialized in comedy commercials and was one of the first directors to use people who were not professional actors.
For comedy I fell in love with very old people, he says.
They were unpretentious, fresh and extremely funny.
During that time, the now-retired director, established a unique style and comedy esthetic. He made more than 2, commercials for such companies as Volkswagen, Budweiser and Little Caesars Pizza.
He was a kind of the Steven Spielberg of the advertising world, says Dann Hall, owner of the Hallans Gallery in Sandpoint, where a selection of Storys black-and-white photographs are on exhibit through Sept.
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The 20 images on view are from Storys recently published monologue, Living in Three Centuries.
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