Martin Short with Cats, Beverly Hills, CA, 2012 Archival Pigment Print

Archival Pigment Print Signed and Numbered by the artist Edition of 50 16x20", 20x24" or 30x36"     Cat lady. Those two words conjure up an image in most everyone’s mind, I assume. In my mind’s eye, I see cats everywhere, a smelly house, a dirty bathrobe, open cans of food, cat litter on the floor, and an oblivious woman at the center of it all, surrounded by her babies. It’s sad, it’s funny, and it is universal.   Well, what about a cat dude? A man with a bunch of cats? Maybe that is even funnier. Maybe the cat dude considers himself somehow above the cat lady, in the food chain, so to speak.   The words above are how my mind works when I am coming up with a picture. When Vanity Fair asked me to photograph Martin Short, I started thinking about scenarios I could put him in that bordered on the absurd, but still had a twisted reality to them. Sure, Marty’s humor is broad, but there is a more surreal aspect to his work than a lot of broad comics. I wanted to find situations where he cou