EDIE BASKIN
Edie Baskin, a longtime Wood River Valley part-time resident, gained a certain celebrity for her witty and engaging photographic work in television and the music industry. Baskin is best known for her 25 years of photography on "Saturday Night Live." When the show premiered in 1975, her original hand-tinted portraits of the guest hosts and the title sequences established the show's signature graphic style. Her work has been published in books, on album covers and in national publications such as People, Time, Newsweek, Interview and Rolling Stone. Her photographs can be found in no less than four books about the "Saturday Night Live" years, as well as the "Paul Simon Song Book." Baskin has also contributed to advertising campaigns for many films including "Look Who's Talking" and, the work she is most proud of, Terrence Malick's Academy Award-winning "Days of Heaven." She has also been exhibited nationally at museums and galleries and was recently featured in "Troubadour of the Highway," a collection of Bruce Springsteen images that are traveling the country. Baskin is also a three-time Emmy Award nominee.