Monthly Archives: July 2010

Industry news roundup: Esquire, Chiat NY, Droga5, and more

. A quick look at what’s happening in our industry… . Alison Unterreiner has been promoted to photo editor at Esquire. (source: MediaBistro’s Revolving Door) . Lisa Topol, formerly at Wieden+Kennedy in New York, has been named creative director at Chiat NY. Sue Anderson, previously at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, also joins Chiat NY as a creative director. [...]

Video interview: Doug Menuez on storytelling, stock, and why “authenticity is everything”

Earlier this year, while on a shoot in Miami, Doug did a video interview about his approach to storytelling and—as a onetime photojournalist and life-long chronicler of the human experience—his thoughts on capturing “real” moments for his commercial and stock clients. He filmed the interview at about the same time he launched his stock site, [...]

“New York” mag names new photo director

New York magazine has chosen a new photography director, reports The New York Observer: Jennifer Miller, the photography director of Cosmopolitan since 2009. Miller replaces Jody Quon, New York‘s photo director since 2004 and since April the creative director of W. Quon, who’d previously spent 10 years at The New York Times Magazine, set the [...]

Kwaku Alston’s “Life”

. Kwaku has a handful of personal projects going, like “Volkslivin”… .   . …“Horizon Court”…   . …and his portrait series “On White”…   . . What I like about his project “Life,” though, is that it’s not just personal but autobiographical. It’s Kwaku photographing his neighbors, his family, people’s he’s worked with, even [...]

New mag celebrates analogue photography

Field Trip, a limited-edition magazine dedicated to showcasing analogue photography, has just made its debut, and it’s quite beautiful. “This first issue carries 52 pages of the blurred, overexposed and double-exposed images that digital cameras would let us delete or retake,” reports magculture.com, which is where I discovered Field Trip. “It’s a simple thing but [...]

Michael Muller’s Comic-Con celebrity portraits for Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly commissioned Michael to shoot portraits during the big Comic-Con convention, which wrapped up yesterday. Seventy (yes, 70!) of his photographs, taken in a studio that the magazine set up at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, are posted in a gallery at ew.com called “Comic-Con: Three Days of Star Portraits.” . In [...]

18 new advertising and editorial highlights

We just sent out our Summer 2010 e-Newsletter. (If you’d like to be on our mailing list for next time, please click here.) It features highlights from our photographers’ recent work in advertising… . Jim Fiscus for Schick (See also: New work by Jim Fiscus: Schick and the Atlanta Ballet) .. . Roxanne Lowit for [...]

Video: 3 minutes with Nadav Kander

Nadav recently photographed French actor and onetime Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona for a brand-new Sky Sports campaign, and Sky Sports has posted an excellent 3-minute interview with Nadav on set. For now, the video is available only at Sky Sports’ Facebook page, but I’ve posted some stills below, along with some of Nadav’s quotes [...]

Stockland Martel welcomes Art Streiber

. Art Streiber, one of the best-known, most-prolific portrait and entertainment photographers in the country, has just joined the Stockland Martel roster. And we’re thrilled to be representing him. Over the past 17 years, Art has been commissioned by every major American culture-oriented magazine, from Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone to Esquire, Wired, [...]

New work: Nino Munoz shoots Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz, plus model Tommy Dunn

Nino photographed Knight & Day stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz for the July issue of French magazine Premiere. Ooh la la! . . He also photographed Erin Wasson and supermodel Tommy Dunn for a True Religion campaign. The concept, as noted at the Ford Models blog, was to make Tommy look “like the Young [...]

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