Monthly Archives: September 2010

Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito campaign by David Drebin

On November 13, Manny Pacquiao—boxing’s pound-for-pound champ and, as of this past May, a congressmen in his native Philippines—will step into the ring at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas to face off against Antonio Margarito. David Drebin was commissioned to shoot ads promoting the superfight, including this one… .   . David shot the pugilists at [...]

Hollywood Reporter showers Art Streiber’s “Hawaii Five-0″ ad with love

Getting people thirsty for the new Hawaii Five-0—that was the purpose of Art’s ads for CBS. But viewers aren’t the only ones whose appetites were whetted by his splashy photos. In “The Live Feed’s Best & Worst Fall TV Ads Graded,” The Hollywood Reporter gives Hawaii Five-0 an A. . . “The ad screams confidence,” [...]

Industry news: the so-called creative exodus, Twitter’s makeover, CP+B adds 3 new creatives, critiquing agency sites, and more

. The so-called creative exodus: Is there a trend in top-tier creatives making the leap into their own agencies or other industries altogether? Ad Age suggests there is in the article “Creative Exodus in Adland: It’s Just Not ‘Fun’ Anymore.” “Since the beginning of the year, a veritable Cannes jury worth of senior creative talent [...]

A Fashion Week tribute, plus…

. We sent out our fall newsletter earlier this week, and since it also happened to be Fashion Week here in our fair city, we did something special to celebrate all things glamorous… . . . The e-newsletter also featured lots of new editorial work by our photographers… . . . As well as lots [...]

Video: Art Streiber and Conan O’Brien (and the owl!)

Go behind the scenes with Art and Conan as they shoot print ads for Conan’s new talk show. Watch as the leggy host poses with an oversize comb, the better to emphasize his sizable pouf of hair. Marvel at his willingness to stand tall as multiple oscillating fans are trained at him full blast. Giggle [...]

David Drebin featured in “Fashion!” exhibition at Stockholm’s Fotografiska Museum

We’re proud to announce that David’s work will be featured in the exhibition “Fashion!” opening on September 24 at the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm. The show will comprise more than 200 images by 50 world-renowned photographers—”from Man Ray’s experimental compositions from the 1920s, to icons such as Irving Penn and Richard Avedon to Steven Meisel [...]

Art Streiber on “Hung,” “Hawaii Five-0,” and Conan’s owl portrait

A bunch of new entertainment campaigns shot by Art have recently made their debut on bus shelters, in magazines, and everywhere that the studios tout major TV shows and movies (which is pretty much everywhere). Among them are the posters for the HBO series Hung, which stars Thomas Jane as a high school coach who [...]

Doug Menuez on capturing “the soul of sport”

With any shoot, there are always great images that never get used. The client needs six shots, for example, and the photographer produces nine solid options. Or, if you’re Doug Menuez, the client needs six shots, and you produce 30,000 images. True story. An international sportswear brand was creating a new campaign for Europe a [...]

Lauren Greenfield wins Grand Prize in PDN’s The Look fashion-photography contest

We’re thrilled to announce that PDN has awarded Lauren Greenfield the Grand Prize in the Runway category in its inaugural fashion-photography contest, The Look—Where Fashion Meets Art. As the editors noted in their introduction to the winners gallery, “Fashion photography is a genre admired by many but practiced by few.” Lauren, who was honored for [...]

A look at some explorers of light

The other day, I found a photo blog called Guess the Lighting, in which photographer Ted Sabarese tries to determine how other photogs lit a specific shot and even draws a diagram to illustrate his guess. “It’s what you always wanted to know but didn’t know who to ask,” he writes. Although technically, we do [...]

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