Monthly Archives: November 2010

Nadav Kander’s “Yangtze” takes the gold at German Photo Book Awards

November 19, 2010 – 9:16 am

. Nadav Kander’s monograph Yangtze—The Long River, published this fall by art-book specialists Hatje Cantz and featuring an introduction by Kofi Annan, won a gold award last night at the German Photo Book Awards. Congratulations, Nadav! Here are excerpts from a couple of reviews: “Ultimately, Yangtze—The Long River is not so much a book about [...]

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Kwaku Alston’s “Harlem Postcard” on view at Studio Museum

November 18, 2010 – 1:20 pm

We’re proud to report that Kwaku Alston, who has previously exhibited personal series such as “Volkslivin” and “Horizon Court” at his space in Venice Beach, California, has just celebrated his first museum show. The exhibition, titled “Harlem Postcards: Fall/Winter 2010–11,” opened last week at the Studio Museum in Harlem and also includes work by Deana [...]

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Patti Smith wins National Book Award for memoir on life with Mapplethorpe

November 18, 2010 – 11:31 am

. Patti Smith won the 2010 National Book Award for nonfiction at a ceremony in New York last night for her memoir, Just Kids, which chronicles her early life in NYC with Robert Mapplethorpe. (There’s a complete list of National Book Award winners here.) Here’s a review of the book by Tom Nissley for Amazon.com, [...]

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Double the Hans: Gissinger in Bon Appetit and at a food-photo panel tonight

November 17, 2010 – 12:01 pm

Hans Gissinger will be talking about his work as part of a panel discussion on food photography tonight at the Levi’s Workshop in New York. From the Workshop’s site: “We’ve brought in a wide range of experts, including Hans Gissinger, Swallow Magazine‘s James Casey, Edible Manhattan/Edible Brooklyn‘s photo director Michael Harlan Turkell, food stylist Victoria Granof and Swedish [...]

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John Midgley featured in Communication Arts’ 2010 Advertising Annual

November 17, 2010 – 9:54 am

Communication Arts recently released its big 2010 Advertising Annual, which honors the best advertising of the year, and our own John Midgley is featured in the Consumer Magazine Ads category for this Acura ad… . . Congratulations, John! To view a complete list of winners and a gallery, and to read about this year’s judges, [...]

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Personal work: Craig Cutler’s “Artist Series”

November 16, 2010 – 5:27 pm

Commercially, Craig Cutler is probably best known for his still lifes of ordinary, if not absolutely mundane, objects that he composes with an artist’s eye. He gives items like rubber bands and Q-tips a metaphorical importance, or at the very least a startling beauty. In his personal work, he sometimes roams much farther afield subject-wise, [...]

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American Illustration/American Photography party

November 16, 2010 – 1:02 pm

As in years past, the Angel Orensanz Foundation, which is housed in a gorgeous 19th-century synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, hosted the American Illustration/American Photography bash. (This year’s photo annual features work by four Stockland Martel photographers: Craig Cutler, Lauren Greenfield, Nadav Kander, and Art Streiber.) The event, which took place on [...]

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Photos and video: Nino Munoz shoots Christina Aguilera for InStyle

November 16, 2010 – 9:21 am

I can barely keep up with Nino, who’s been shooting one big editorial story after another. Since it’s too much to show all at once, let’s start with his cover story for the December 2010 U.K. edition of InStyle, featuring pop icon—and Burlesque star!—Christina Aguilera. .   . The credits… Photo editor: Wendy Hinton Fashion [...]

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Michael Muller’s “Captain America”

November 15, 2010 – 12:27 pm

Michael Muller adds yet another superhero to his long list of superheroic entertainment portraits and posters—which includes X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Fantastic 4—with his photograph of actor Chris Evans as Captain America for a recent cover of Entertainment Weekly. . . The portrait was part of the magazine’s “exclusive first look” at [...]

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Walter Iooss’ Montauk: “The best light of the year”

November 15, 2010 – 10:05 am

Walter sent me these photos on November 10th. “Eastern light,” he wrote. “The best light of the year in Montauk.” . . .

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