Monthly Archives: July 2010

Feel like inspiring someone?

The Art of Elysium, which engages critically ill kids in the arts as a form not just of therapy but as a way to enrich their lives and inspire their imaginations, needs your help. The L.A.-based nonprofit organization—whose many celebrity supporters include Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage, Melissa Etheridge, and James Franco—is trying to raise enough [...]

Walter Iooss’ Montauk: Rock steady

I got an email from Walter, and this is what it said: . . I knew people were gonna want to know the story behind the photo. I wrote him back, and I couldn’t resist a little sarcasm: “So you were walking by and just found her on this rock, right?” The thing about Walter [...]

Photo gallery: Legs!

Like people, legs come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and levels of furriness… . . and flexibility… . . Herewith, a gallery, assembled purely for your amusement and bemusement, of leg shots (or shots that are just plain leggy) by these Stockland Martel photographers: Jorg Badura, Matthias Clamer, David Drebin, Hans Gissinger, Rolph Gobits, Lauren [...]

Five days in Hong Kong with Fulvio Bonavia

Stockland Martel photo rep Emily Leonardo just got back from “a whirlwind trip” to Hong Kong with Milan-based photographer Fulvio Bonavia and his wife, Kristina Radic, and has filed this report of their adventure… . . We spent the past week running around the steaming hot 100F city doing press interviews to promote an exhibition [...]

Stained-glass inspiration: Another look at Nadav Kander’s Monte Carlo campaign

Yesterday at her blog, Heather Morton posted an excellent follow-up to my June 10 post Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s John Kieselhorst on Nadav Kander and the making of their cheeky Monte Carlo campaign. Focusing on how to facilitate collaboration on a creative project, Heather interviewed Andrea Mariash, the David & Goliath senior art buyer on the campaign. [...]

Matthias Clamer on “The Glades,” plus a behind-the-scenes video shot as a silent film

The new A&E series The Glades premiered this week, which you probably already knew—the ads for the show, shot by our own Matthias Clamer, are everywhere. Here are a couple: . . “We shot on the beach in Miami and built a huge swamp set in studio,” explains Matthias at his blog. “I went on [...]

Video: Interview with Luca Zordan at “Children of Africa” auction in New York

The benefit auction inspired by the new book Children of Africa: South African Edition was last month, and it drew a big crowd despite the sweltering temperatures and the surfeit of photo-related events (such as Le Book Connections) in New York that day. The book, which is raising money for children with HIV/AIDS in South [...]

Red all about it: John Offenbach photographs Jean Nouvel’s monochromatic Serpentine Pavilion

Every year, the Serpentine Gallery in London commissions an important architect or architectural firm  to design a temporary pavilion for its lawn, and this year, that important architect is Jean Nouvel. His pavilion is a clean-lined study executed almost entirely in vermilion, as you can see from these photographs by our own John Offenbach, who’s [...]

From Russia with clowns: Rolph Gobits’ circus performers

Rolph has an enduring fascination with performers of all kinds, whether they’re chic models and film stars or the painted-face, leotard-wearing members of the circus, so one of his ongoing personal projects is to make portraits of showpeople. Here are some highlights from the “Entertainers” gallery at his website: .   . This past May [...]

New work: Nino Munoz shoots cover story and video featuring Gisele for Muse magazine

Longtime collaborators Nino Munoz and Gisele Bundchen have teamed up again, this time for the Summer 2010 issue of fashion and art magazine Muse. Nino photographed his supermodel friend for the cover… . . …which was designed as a trifold. “I’m proud to be in the company of two incredible talents featured on the other [...]

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