Monthly Archives: April 2010

New work: Jan Steinhilber for Hummer, Isklar, and Nokia

April 22, 2010 – 11:25 am

We’ve got a triple shot of Jan for you today: . A personal project featuring a Hummer prototype. “It’s a 3D piece that was created especially for these images, taking a prototype as reference that never made it into the markets,” Jan told me via email. He shot the backgrounds you see here but materialized [...]

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The future of street photography

April 21, 2010 – 5:35 pm

During his presentation at the APA/NY Image Makers lecture last week, Jeff Mermelstein noted that his work is typically identified as street photography but that he doesn’t think of it that way. He considers it photojournalism. And then he said, “I think Garry Winogrand is one of the greatest photojournalists.” I thought about this assertion [...]

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Spring 2010 E-Newsletter: Stockland Martel presents 26 new blog, advertising, and editorial highlights

April 21, 2010 – 9:44 am

We just sent out our spring e-newsletter, and it’s jam packed with new work that—when you look at it as a whole—represents a pretty large slice of popular culture at this moment. There’s super-chic fashion… . Matthew Rolston’s “Art of Fashion” for Neiman Marcus . …spirited, poppy fashion… . Liz Von Hoene’s Kate Spade campaign. [...]

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NYC gallery owners launch study center for fine-art photography

April 20, 2010 – 11:49 am

I was really excited to read Lisa Kereszi‘s post about The Exhibition Lab at Daylight Magazine‘s blog. The lab, which will offer classes, seminars, and portfolio reviews aimed at fine-art photographers, was established by Michael Foley of Foley Gallery and Sasha Wolf of Sasha Wolf Gallery. Here’s a bit more about it, courtesy of the [...]

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New work: Scott & Zoë shoot “worst cleaning jobs” for Real Simple

April 20, 2010 – 8:29 am

Scott & Zoë accomplish the impossible in the May issue of Real Simple: They make cleaning look fashionable and fun. And like something out of Mad Men. Here are their photos from the feature “The Worst Cleaning Jobs Made Easy” (subtitle: “The quickest, smartest strategies for battling eight universally despised tasks”), by Sarah Stebbins. . [...]

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Using CGI to make “emotional” automotive images?

April 19, 2010 – 1:48 pm

Lots of photographers use CGI to create scenarios that would otherwise be impossible to execute, but it’s usually because they’re under budget and time constraints or because they want to achieve something fantastical. John Offenbach, on the other hand, has been experimenting with using CGI to achieve an emotional special effect. I’ll let him explain: [...]

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New work: Nadav Kander’s St John Ambulance campaign is a matter of life and death

April 16, 2010 – 8:00 am

St John Ambulance is a U.K. charity dedicated to teaching people first aid so that everyone might be equipped with the knowledge to save a life. “We believe that it’s absolutely unacceptable that so many people die needlessly—because no one could give them first aid when they needed it,” the organization states at its website. [...]

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Highlights from last night’s APA/NY Image Makers series with Robert Tardio and Jeff Mermelstein

April 15, 2010 – 10:11 am

I went to the Apple store in Soho last night to hear Robert Tardio and Jeff Mermelstein speak at the APA/NY Image Makers series. Here are some highlights and sound bites from their presentations. . . Robert Tardio Robert is a commercial still-life photographer with 24 years in the industry who is collaborating on an [...]

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New work: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and the geeks

April 15, 2010 – 7:55 am

“Get your geek on. Support the library.” That’s the message of a new campaign by Leo Burnett in Chicago, which has teamed up with OCLC, a nonprofit library cooperative funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to foster support for public libraries. The “Geek the Library” campaign features portraits of “geeks” [...]

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Roxanne Lowit in Netherlands museum’s “Haute Couture” exhibition

April 14, 2010 – 10:25 am

The Gemeente Museum in the Hague is home to one of Europe’s largest fashion collections—from the pink Givenchy frock that Audrey Hepburn made famous in Breakfast at Tiffany’s to pieces from fashion’s storied past, including by Worth, Poiret, and Vionnet. And now, with “Haute Couture,” the museum is celebrating some of fashion’s finest: members of [...]

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