Monthly Archives: July 2009

The artworld’s newest power players: digital curators

“Like traditional curators and gallery directors, bloggers and online curators look at work constantly—in magazines, at galleries, on Web sites and in the e-mails they receive from photographers. They pluck out photos they like—or that they think are interesting to critique and discuss—and then post them for others to see. Unlike traditional curators or gallerists, [...]

Want to get commissioned by InStyle?

Photographers are forever wondering exactly what it is that photo editors and creatives are after so that they can pitch themselves accordingly. And yet that information seems to be so elusive. Which is why I’m posting a link to a Q&A with Wendy Hinton, photography director at InStyle, that appears at the website for British [...]

Tonight: free screening of The Black List

………. In conjunction with an exhibition of photographs from The Black List: Vol. 2, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, is screening the HBO documentary tonight. After the movie, there will be a discussion with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, who collaborated on the project with film critic Elvis Mitchell. Admission is free. The Black [...]

Hot new bands, hot new blog

Matthias Clamer has just started a blog (http://matthiasclamer.blogspot.com/) where he’ll be posting new work, along with his own commentary. This is a rare chance to go behind the scenes with a prolific photographer who shoots many high-profile campaigns and celebrity portraits. A prime example: a set of flame-themed photos he shot in New York for [...]

Random post: Mel Gibson directs “the cheesiest video ever”

Mel’s been trying to repair his image ever since his anti-Semitic tirade in September 2006. But we’re not sure that this glassy-eyed, post-Apocalypto directorial effort, for girlfriend Oksana Gregorieva’s “Beautiful Heartache,” is the way to do it. (Sample lyric: “I love the way you wear your skin.” Huh. Sounds like a line from The Silence [...]

Martin Sigal’s sexy Axe campaign picks up two awards

Martin’s “Day & Night” trio of ads for Axe recently won a Gold award at Cannes and a Silver for Print at the Clio Awards. Congratulations, Martin! ………. ………. ………. ………. ……….

Photography and the price of being “free”

An interesting story from the online photo community Resolve: “I have talked to a lot of photographers and photo industry professionals about the importance of building an audience for themselves, building a reputation around quality work, industry knowledge, and personality. To do that, you often have to give away some things for free,” writes Miki [...]

“When you go shopping, it seems like it’s never enough.”

Veronica Rueckert of Wisconsin Public Radio’s Ideas Network interviewed Lauren Greenfield last week about Greenfield’s documentary kids + money, which Rueckert described as  “an unsettling look at just how deeply America had sunk into conspicuous consumption before the recent economic downturn. And it’s viewed through the eyes of some of society’s best truth tellers: kids.” [...]

A photo tour of Stockland Martel

Art producer Cecilia Marshall’s photo tour of the Stockland Martel offices.

Nadav Kander chosen for the Prix Pictet 2009 Shortlist

At an opening event for Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival in France yesterday, the shortlist for the Prix Pictet—the world’s first prize dedicated to photography and sustainability—was announced. Nadav Kander is one of 12 artists to be selected for this prestigious honor. Congratulations, Nadav! A nice space hereA nice space hereA nice space hereA nice [...]

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