Monthly Archives: December 2009

22 motion, advertising, and editorial highlights

December 16, 2009 – 11:53 am

… You know how magazine covers always tout the number of good things contained inside? “85 Uses for Your Gardening Hose.” “Rock-Hard Abs in Only 3,427 Steps.” “0 Reasons to Like Sen. Joe Lieberman.” Well, we’ve taken a similar (but more serious) approach with our 2009 Winter E-Newsletter. If you’re on our mailing list, you [...]

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T Magazine Blog interviews Roxanne Lowit

December 15, 2009 – 3:24 pm

.. The buzz surrounding Roxanne Lowit and Backstage Dior continues to grow, grow, grow. The book, which I saw in person yesterday at Stockland Martel’s offices, is a hefty, eye-popping collection of otherworldly fashions and the equally out-of-this world women who modeled them. .. .. Roxanne captures the glamour and the gorgeousness, and interprets it [...]

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Chelsea Handler on the cover of Playboy

December 15, 2009 – 11:18 am

… Matthias Clamer photographed the quippy talk-show host for the cover of Playboy‘s Christmas issue, which is out now. The pose was inspired by the famous Coppertone ad—”because,” writes Matthias at his blog, “every photographer has to do that at least once in his lifetime.” .. .. There’s more on the Playboy shoot, plus some [...]

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Video: “Editor vs. Photographer”

December 15, 2009 – 10:49 am

.. Slagging your clients publicly is something you just don’t do in this economy (or in any economy, really) if you ever want to work again. But that doesn’t mean photographers have no means of venting their vexation at dealing with unreasonable demands or clueless editors. They can always make a satirical movie and put [...]

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Deadline for Sony World Photo awards coming up fast

December 14, 2009 – 12:22 pm

… The deadline to enter the Sony World Photography Awards, which as its website notes is much more than just a competition—in fact, it’s a weeklong celebration in Cannes—is coming up soon. January 4, to be precise. David Zimmerman was the 2009 L’Iris D’Or winner: .. .. Nadav Kander is part of the Honorary Jury, [...]

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Updated: George and Barbara Bush at home—outtakes!

December 14, 2009 – 11:29 am

… The new issue of Parade features some cozy photos of the former President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush at Walker’s Point, their home in Kennebunkport, Maine, shot by Doug Menuez. .. .. … Click here to read the accompanying story by David Baldacci, who first met the Bushes a decade ago. [...]

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Video: the making of “Children of Africa”

December 14, 2009 – 10:11 am

… I’ve interviewed about Luca Zordan about his upcoming book Children of South Africa, which he is producing in collaboration with Alethea Gold, and Luca has described with great emotion the children and stories he’s photographed. But now there’s a video that makes it come to life better than my words ever could: … … [...]

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Gus Van Sant, Tom Sachs, Bruce Wolf’s cat in new issue of Arkitip

December 11, 2009 – 5:37 pm

… The Hollywood-based studio Arkitip approaches magazine publishing as a form of artmaking, conceiving each issue of its eponymous publication as a desirable, visually dynamic object in its own right. The studio—which also produces clothing and other merchandise—has taken on a broad variety of themes since the magazine’s first issue, which measured a diminutive 10 [...]

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Bill and Maureen: The day we signed Walter Iooss

December 11, 2009 – 11:48 am

… The year: 1984. At the time, recalls Maureen, she and Bill were working out of an office on 47th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenue. It was tiny. “There was just enough room to fit Bill and I,” Maureen says. “If we had a guest, they would have to stand in the hallway.” It [...]

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Women of the avant-garde

December 10, 2009 – 7:00 pm

… Know much about female avant-garde artists? If you don’t, you’re missing out and you should head straight over to Harriet, a blog published by the Poetry Foundation. They’re promoting a two-part podcast dedicated to these exciting, and underappreciated, artists—one of whom is Karen Finley, shown here in a portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. .. .. [...]

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