Bridges has been an amateur photographer since high school. He began taking photographs on film sets during "Starman" at the suggestion of co-star Karen Allen in 1984, with his favorite camera, a Widelux F8 that his wife bought him. He published many of these photographs online and in a 2003 book entitled "Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges". In 2013, he received an Infinity Award for his photos from the International Center of Photography in New York. A follow-up book, "Jeff Bridges: Pictures Volume Two", was published in 2019.