Every episode of “Saturday Night Live” is sprinkled with a few seconds of still photographs serving as “bumpers,” the bookends to each commercial break with spellbinding portraits of the ...
Mary Ellen Matthews is the photographer behind Saturday Night Live's iconic "bumper" photos, the artistic and often hilarious pictures of the hosts and musical guests that appear before commercial ...
Her images have that in common with the rest of Saturday Night Live. Her bumper photos don't go out to the world because they're ready, they go out because the close strikes 11:30 p.m. on Saturday ...