Monthly Archives: September 2009

Jim Fiscus’ “Moment” in Communication Arts

September 16, 2009 – 9:37 am

… There’s a big feature on Jim’s recent personal project, “The Unfortunate Moment of Misunderstanding,” in Communication Arts‘ 2009 Photography Annual. “Moment” is a sort of photographic novella, with a fashion twist, about a wood carver who makes the same doll over and over again, and Jim used CGI for various parts of it. (He [...]

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Greenfield-Sanders on Jim Carroll

September 16, 2009 – 9:13 am

… In the summer of 1997, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders made this portrait of downtown poet and musician Jim Carroll, who died last Friday at the age of 60. Timothy was in the midst of making Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart for American Masters at the time, and he and Jim discussed rock and Reed that [...]

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“Obama’s People” opens at London’s Flowers gallery

September 15, 2009 – 10:22 am

…   An exhibition of “Obama’s People,” Nadav Kander’s New York Times Magazine series of portraits, has just opened at London’s Flowers gallery. The show, which the London Evening Standard wrote about yesterday, will be on view through Oct. 10. As you’ve surely heard by now, Kira Pollack, who worked with Nadav on “Obama’s People” [...]

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More on those controversial AIDS-awareness ads

September 15, 2009 – 9:06 am

.. Yesterday I wrote about Uwe Duettmann’s AIDS-awareness campaign featuring Hitler, Hussein, and Stalin. To put those ads into some context, I here are some examples of other socially minded campaigns from recent years. Some are more successful than others, but they all take the same approach: trying to illustrate the very real and awful [...]

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Polaroid gone wild at Meatpacking District lounge

September 14, 2009 – 3:01 pm

.. Well, sort of. David Drebin shot a fashion story at RDV, a swanky boite in the Meatpacking District, that shows models taking photos of each other with a gorgeous vintage Polaroid camera. The story—which appears in the September issue of Angeleno magazine—is about how some women use Facebook to make their former flames jealous. [...]

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Behind the scenes of a Collezioni magazine fashion shoot

September 14, 2009 – 12:00 pm

…   … Rolph Gobits just photographed a multi-page fashion spread for the November issue of the Italian magazine Collezioni (specifically the Russian edition), and he sent us these pictures from the shoot. The theme of story is the 1940s glamour—which seems to never go out of style, nor should it—and Rolph, his crew, the [...]

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Controversial ads feature Hitler, Hussein, and Stalin

September 14, 2009 – 10:44 am

… It was made with the best intentions, but it’s making a lot of people angry. A German ad agency recently released an AIDS-awareness campaign about the dangers of unsafe sex—a message they chose to convey by producing graphic photos of Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Josef Stalin each having intercourse with a woman. The [...]

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“The best contemporary still-life shooters in the industry”

September 11, 2009 – 2:17 pm

… Photographer Dan Saelinger is teaching a still-life course at the School of Visual Arts, and as he explains in “Back to School Inspiration,” a post at his eponymous blog, he devotes the first day of class to showing slides by the people he regards as the industry’s best still-life photographers working today. Among those [...]

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Is the ad world dying? Jeff Goodby doesn’t think so.

September 11, 2009 – 12:49 pm

… It’s sort of like a clash of the titans, except the two mighty powers do not actually do battle in person. Bob Garfield, an editor at large for Advertising Age and a cohost of NPR’s On the Media, has written a book about media and advertising called The Chaos Scenario. As you can surmise [...]

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Campaign Photo Awards winners

September 11, 2009 – 11:45 am

… Campaign, a British advertising-industry magazine “dedicated to celebrating creative excellence in the communications industry whilst putting creativity firmly in a business context,” held its annual Campaign Photo Awards this week. Among the big winners were Stuart Hall, whose work for Cazadores Tequila (the agency was TBWA\Chiat\Day) earned him two golds; Alex Telfer, whose three [...]

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