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“Iron Man to Fargo: Behind-the-scenes photos and stories from major movie sets”
By Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
In the Los Angeles Times, Gary Goldstein profiles Moving Still: A Cinematic Life Frame-by-Frame, exploring Lauri Gaffin’s remarkable career and intimate photographs from sets of major Hollywood films.
“MOVING STILL Selected Photographs from a Hollywood Set Decorator’s New Monograph”
By Lauri Gaffin
The Panafold Fall/Winter 2025
Moving Still is a visual diary of my 35 years as a set decorator for feature films. It’s also, almost accidentally, a chronicle of the emotional life I led while pursuing success in the world of make-believe.
“A new photo book takes you behind the scenes of some of cinema's most beloved films, from Fargo to Charlie's Angels”
By Anna Solomon
Wallpaper
For more than 40 years, LA-based set decorator Lauri Gaffin has quietly shaped the worlds we see on the silver screen – from the frozen expanses of Fargo to the sun-soaked beaches of Thor. But Gaffin is also a photographer who's turned her lens toward the backgrounds of popular culture.
“My beautiful house lay in ruins!: how to build (and wreck) a Hollywood set - in pictures”
By Lauri Gaffin
The Guardian
Veteran set decorator Lauri Gaffin has spent a career dressing up films from indie classics to blockbusters. Her new photographic memoir takes us behind the scenes of this ever-changing job – and on the hunt for wolves’ penis bones.
“Lauri Gaffin: MOVING STILL: A Cinematic Life Frame-by-Frame”
By Aline Smithson
Lenscratch Fine Art Photography Daily
Growing up in Los Angeles, my world was always surrounded by the movie and television industry. My high school was often used a a location for movies and television shows — the final carnival scene in Grease was filmed on my high school football field and many classmates showed up on various sized screens (Leonard DiCaprio was an alumni). One of my first jobs was in a department store on Hollywood and Vine and each night, I’d step out on the sidewalks covered with stars. Needless to say, discovering Lauri Gaffin’s new book, Moving Still, by Damiani Books was a thrill.
“The Questionnaire: Lauri Gaffin: Between Memory, Vision, and Truth”
By Carole Schmitz
The Eye of Photography
For Lauri Gaffin, photography is not a matter of chance but of necessity. Born in Los Angeles and shaped by life more than by formal education, she first built worlds of fiction before turning her lens toward reality. Her work as a set decorator for film sharpened her sense of composition, detail, and light elements that, in her hands, are not decoration but revelation.
“What do you see when Hollywood”
Rolling Stone
January 2026
'Moving Still - A Cinematic Life Frame-by-Frame' is the new photo book by Lauri Griffin, published by Damiani Books. The Los Angeles photographer has collected in this work four decades of images taken behind the scenes of films such as 'Fargo', 'The Search for Happiness', 'Charlie's Angels', 'Iron Man', 'Thor' and many others, telling us what is beyond the cinematography film. Photographs that reveal the human and emotional side of cinema, but also of the photographer and set designer herself, and that dialogue with personal texts by the same author and set designer Florence Fellman. In addition, the work is enriched with a preface by Britt Salvesen of LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 'Moving Still - A Cinematic Life Frame-by-Frame' (Damiani Books). With photos of Lauri Gaffin. Lyrics by Lauri Gaffin & Florence Fellman. Preface by Britt Salvesen.
"The Best Books to Give at Christmas: 23 ideas for those who love design, architecture, art, beauty: #6 Moving Still. A Cinematic Life Frame-by-Frame di Lauri Gaffin”
Architectural Digest, December 18, 2025
di Elena Dallorso
Moving Still. A Cinematic Life Frame-by-Frame is a personal portrait of the career of American set designer Lauri Gaffin. With over forty years of work in the industry, Gaffin has managed to put together behind-the-scenes shots and an intimate narrative, offering an exclusive and rare look at the world of cinema. The book tells the story of life on the set of movies like Fargo and The Pursuit of Happyness, or blockbusters like Charlie's Angels, Iron Man and Thor. His photographs and the anecdotes told reveal the spirit of collaboration that unites directors, actors, set designers and crew members. The common thread of the book is the contrast between his brilliant career path and his complex emotional life, which finds its solid center of gravity in photographs.
“Books: Coffee Table Choice”
The Independent Newspaper
January 2026
Lauri Gaffin has spent 35 years as a set decorator in Tinseltown. In “Moving Still’, she provides a rare glimpse of life behind the scenes on productions from 1996-2019, from indie gems ‘Fargo’ to blockbusters including ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Thor’.
“In Images: The Inner Life of Film Sets”
Blind Magazine
By Guenola Pellen
”This is a visual diary of my 35 years as a set decorator for feature films,” writes Lauri Gaffin in Moving Still. The book unfolds as a body of work where cinema, photography, and inner life quietly converge.
“Libri illustrati consigliati: i migliori d’arte, cucina, cinema, luoghi, poesia, moda e altro ancora…”
di A.C. e C.R.
Style Magazine, 17 dicemebre 2025
Da regalare a Natale… Storie illustrate per viaggiare, sognare, indossare, scoprire, gustare: incantarsi.
“La Regina Dei Set”
By Gianni Poglio
Panorama
Ha trasformato un paesino della California in Asgard, Patria di Thor, ha girato scene di Iron Man tra gli ingegneri di Space X. La scenografa Lauri Gaffin racconta trent’anni di location ideate per il cinema, ora immortalate in un libro fotografico.
“Hollywood, l’arte nascosta dietro i film cult: Lauri Gaffin, la donna che costruisce i set e poi li distrugge”
By Gianni Poglio
Panorama
Ha trasformato un paesino della California in Asgard, Patria di Thor, ha girato scene di Iron Man tra gli ingegneri di Space X. La scenografa Lauri Gaffin racconta trent’anni di location ideate per il cinema, ora immortalate in un libro fotografico.
“Production Design in the 21st Century”
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences
Lauri Gaffin speaks about her career and the evolution of production design.
“The Secret Life of Sets: Set Decorators at Work”
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences
A unique exhibition celebrating the art of contemporary set decoration.
”Pulling Back the Drapes: Set Decoration Revealed”
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences
SDSA Set Decorators Society of America
Exhibition highlights the creative work of selected artists.
”For Film Set Decorators, Tiny Details Count”
NPR, Morning Edition
By Susan Stamberg
Lauri Gaffin is the set decorator for an upcoming film about artificial intelligence starring Johnny Depp. She's scouting for an iron bed, a big flag, a couch and other items on her list. Assistant set decorator Florence Fellman and lead man Anthony Carlino, at left.
“Once Upon A Pad”
By Barbara Thornburg
Los Angeles Times Magazine
On the movie set of Charlie’s Angeles, a fantasy bachelor hangout with all the comforts of home.
“Back to the Future”
By Jil Peters
Sunset magazine
Feature article on Lauri’s restoration of her modern classic home.
