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L.A. Private Schools Bring On Celebrity Photographer For School Portraits
As we consider what schools to send our children to, we first want to think about how their school portraits are going to come out. After all, how your kids look in school is the most important thing about their young lives.
And that's why, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the Wildwood School and Westside Neighborhood School have brought on Vince Bucci to photograph their students. Bucci is a photographer to the stars, having shot Kim Kardashian and Beyonce.
The magazine adds that Hollywood Schoolhouse, Temple Israel of Hollywood and The Willows bring Dennis Kleiman on for their portraits, who's shot the White Stripes and Ozzy.
Wildwood School is located near Mid-City, whereas Westside Neighborhood School is over in Culver City.
As far as we're concerned, those school portraits with the lasers in the background build character. Looking good in your childhood yearbook photo robs you of the precious opportunity to look back on your youth and feel immense regret for the things you wore, the way you looked and the poses you struck, thinking that you looked just like a glamour shot. Bad yearbook photos are, in short, a bade of honor, proving that you made it through the most mortifying time period of your life. Without those, how could we prove that we're now grown-ups?
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