“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.
“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.
“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.
“Production Design in the 21st Century” Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Lauri Gaffin speaks about her career and the evolution of production design.
”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.
“How ‘Captain Marvel’ nails ‘90s nostalgia in a Blockbuster video store” By Reed Tucker New York Post A nostalgic leap back to 1995, blending superhero origin with meticulous ’90s set recreations—like Blockbuster, dial-up internet, and retro props—to establish the character’s unique place in the Marvel universe.
