Michael Stipe: Even the Birds Gave Pause

The artistic polymath behind R.E.M. explores the potency of portraiture

Before his wildly successful foray into music--as frontman of the 1990s international sensation R.E.M.--Michael Stipe was a visual arts student at the University of Georgia in Athens. After the band dissolved in 2011, Stipe returned to his first love: generating illustrations, photography and sculptures. His diaristic photographs are perhaps his best known works, and he has previously published three photobooks with Dami...