Monthly Archives: November 2010

New York mag’s Vulture blog names “The Five Best and Five Worst Movie Posters of 2010″

November 12, 2010 – 4:30 pm

And one of the five best features a portrait by our own Michael Muller, who photographed his friend Joaquin Phoenix for Casey Affleck’s I’m Still Here. . . “Casey Affleck’s documentary was as much of a mess as the put-on version of Joaquin Phoenix he was chronicling, but for a brief shining moment, this poster [...]

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Wired’s “Favorite Photobloggers”

November 12, 2010 – 12:47 pm

The editors of Wired‘s blog Raw File are inviting readers to “Get to Know Our Favorite Photobloggers” in a post that includes brief interviews with the bloggers in question. Sadly, we were not included on the list… (sniffle, sniffle) One of the people who did make the cut is Blake Andrews, whom Raw File dubs [...]

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Pacquiao/Margarito promo video, featuring photos by David Drebin

November 12, 2010 – 8:02 am

The epic faceoff between boxers Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito is tomorrow at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, and fight fans who have been eagerly awaiting this day will finally get to see who emerges the victor. Till then, here’s a video from the bout’s promoters featuring photos by David Drebin. . . Related: Manny Pacquiao [...]

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Hunting, yachting, clay shooting—John Midgley goes on day trips with designers for Esquire’s Big Black Book

November 11, 2010 – 9:30 am

For the fall 2010 edition of The Big Black Book, Esquire’s men’s style bible, John Midgley went on day trips with top-shelf designers—not to look at fabrics or gaze at fashion shows but to document these guys doing things they love to do. Like hunting, yachting, and clay shooting. “Esquire’s fashion director, Nick Sullivan, and [...]

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The story behind Jim Fiscus’ “execution” portraits for Ireland’s TG4

November 10, 2010 – 1:11 pm

Shooting portraits comes with a certain level of responsibility to the person in front of your camera. That’s true regardless of the subject, but that responsibility can be especially weighty when the portrait you’re making is meant to represent a historical figure, and an iconic one at that. Ireland’s TG4 has been broadcasting an ambitious [...]

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Herald de Paris interviews “visual anthropologist” Doug Menuez

November 10, 2010 – 10:49 am

The Herald de Paris did an interview with Doug about his early influences (Elliott Erwitt, Sebastiao Salgado, and Mary Ellen Mark, among others), his experience at art school (“torture” is how Doug describes it), how he got Elizabeth Taylor to write a foreword to one of his books, and much more. It’s a great read [...]

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Video: Roxanne Lowit and Simon Doonan in conversation at Milk Gallery

November 10, 2010 – 10:05 am

Did you miss out on seeing Roxanne Lowit and Simon Doonan in conversation last month? Not to worry—Milk Gallery has just posted a video of the entire chat. Click on the image below to begin… .   . .

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Aussie agency chooses Nadav Kander for high-art ice-cream campaign

November 9, 2010 – 3:57 pm

. It takes an extraordinary level of artistry to make Nestlé Peters’ Connoisseur ice cream—that’s the concept behind a new campaign developed by Publicis Mojo Melbourne, who hired Nadav Kander to create images to illustrate the ads. “Client and agency collaborated with Nadav Kander, arguably one of the world’s best stills photographers, to bring the [...]

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Uwe Duettmann, “globe-trotting assignments,” and the importance of having your own style

November 9, 2010 – 9:59 am

PDN chose a photo by our own Uwe Duettmann for its November cover story, which takes readers “Behind the Scenes on Globe-Trotting Assignments.” Uwe—who, as the magazine points out, is “one of Germany’s top advertising photographers”—shot the image below while in Hong Kong on an assignment for Zurich Insurance. . . In fact, the 12-ad [...]

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Video interview: Nadav Kander on his series “Yangtze: The Long River”

November 8, 2010 – 9:47 am

The online photo, art, media, and culture magazine Lens Culture recorded a video interview with Nadav in Paris about his award-winning series “Yangtze: The Long River”—what inspired the project, what he wanted to express with it, and how the project evolved as he worked on it. Nadav, who worked on the series for three years, [...]

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