Monthly Archives: January 2010

More SMart Book 2010 party pics!

. At his Facebook page, Kwaku Alston has posted a bunch of photos he took at the SMart Book 2010 party/exhibition last Thursday, including these: . . . . . These next photos, meanwhile, are from the SMart party pics posted at the Society of Visual Creatives: . . . . Thank you to everyone [...]

New work: Michael Muller shoots Ultimate Fighting king Dana White for Esquire

. Presidents come in all shapes and sizes. Here, for example, is the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. His name is Dana White. . . And this is how writer Mike Sager describes him in a feature he wrote for the February 2010 “People Who Matter” issue of Esquire: . “Equal parts Don King, [...]

The Match.com of creative agencies?

. Have you read about The ideaLists? It’s an open-source creative agency that exists online only, and it operates very similarly to a dating website (uh, not that I have any experience with that)—creatives submit ideas, and clients can browse the ideas to find one they’d like to back. “Founded by Adam Glickman, a former [...]

Pics: SMart Book 2010 party

. Last Thursday was the big party and exhibition for the just-released SMart Book 2010, which we hosted at The Gallery @ Stockland Martel. We shot video interviews with a number of the photographers, as well as an interview with Maureen Martel on the concept and design of SMart Book 2010 and her thoughts on [...]

David Drebin, Art Palm Beach, and…legs

. The big Art Palm Beach fair wrapped up this week, and David was among the featured artists. (His work was on display via Contessa Gallery.) This spectacular boxing photo is one of the pieces he showed: . . And it inspired me to visit his website to see some of his other limited-edition photographs. [...]

New work: “Glee,” Jeremy Renner, and more by Matthias Clamer

. Matthias recently shot a wonderful black-and-white portfolio for Time magazine. Here’s a look at some of what he produced during his three-day shoot here in New York: . . . . Matthias, by the way, has shot the Glee stars before—he did the promo photos for the hit Fox show. They’re similar in spirit [...]

“Fashion magazines should go up market, not down”

. I hope magazine publishers read Raquel Laneri’s opinion piece on fashion magazines at Forbes.com yesterday. So many publications lately have been racing to work out digital solutions—such as Kindle-like readers, iPhone iterations, and beefier websites—to solve the stubborn problem of falling circ numbers and declining ad revenue. Which means they’ve put themselves in the [...]

Presenting our new photo annual: SMart Book 2010

. Each year, we produce a collection of our photographers’ work in the form of a limited-edition book. Our latest volume, SMart Book 2010, has just been completed, and we’ll be unveiling it tonight from 6 to 8 at the Gallery @ Stockland Martel. The book represents the culmination of a lot of hard work [...]

Photos from the big Kilimanjaro climb

. Michael Muller just sent me some photos he took during the Summit on the Summit climb. Check it: .   . . . . . .

Video: When weather doesn’t cooperate on a shoot

. Liz Von Hoene has been in L.A. this week shooting for Neiman Marcus, collaborating with Margo Weathers, Neiman’s associate creative director. Unfortunately, it’s not a studio shoot, and if you’ve been paying attention to the weather out West, you know the conditions have been far from ideal. . The location was soggy: . . [...]

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