Monthly Archives: March 2011

Doug Menuez on the redesign of his website, and why a photographer’s site shouldn’t just be about getting work

. Doug Menuez has just redesigned his website, which he created two years ago through LiveBooks. As we all know, website redesigns are incredibly time-consuming, cost money, sap your energy, and make you question why you ever began the process. And for someone like Doug, who has a busy career shooting editorial and advertising, taking [...]

David Drebin: “We’re all voyeurs, aren’t we?”

. Gina Salamone of the New York Daily News interviewed David Drebin about the “voyeuristic views” in his new book, The Morning After, for a feature that appeared in the newspaper last week. Here’s an excerpt: . . Central Park has been captured by countless photographers – ­amateurs and professionals – but few shots are as dramatic [...]

Tonight: Humble Arts Foundation launch party for “Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography”

  . If you’re a young/emerging photographer, you should get acquainted with the Humble Arts Foundation, a New York nonprofit that supports and promotes new art photography. And tonight would be a great time to begin the getting-to-know-you process—Humble Arts is throwing a big party at the Chelsea Art Museum to celebrate the release of [...]

New work: Art Streiber’s portraits of Zynga’s alpha dog—and the dogs of Zynga

. If only more companies were like Zynga, where you can bring your dog to work with you each day. Fast Company commissioned Art Streiber to photograph Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of the San Francisco–based maker of online games such as FarmVille—and home to more canine coworkers than you can shake a chewy toy [...]

Spotlight: Jan Steinhilber

Communication Arts published an interview with Jan Steinhilber in December 2009 that describes the German photographer thusly: “Photographer Jan Steinhilber studied graphic design with the ambition to become an art director—and accidentally discovered photography during the studies. He got deeper into it by working as an assistant for different photographers and finally decided to make [...]

UPDATED: Interview with Diederik Meijer, editor of new iPad photo magazine “50pm”

. “This is what 50pm stands for: independent, unsubsidized, no corporate sponsorships, just a small team sharing our passion for photography with people around the globe.” —Diederik Meijer, editor in chief, 50pm . It’s one thing to complain that the ubiquity of imagery has eroded the value of photography. It’s quite another to try to [...]

Image of the Day: A still from “Menuez on Manhattan”

. Ron Dawson, who writes the blog Blade Ronner: DSLR Filmmaking, Photography & Small Business Basics, is doing a documentary on Doug Menuez called Menuez on Manhattan. “From earning $2/hour to negotiating $2 million deals, Doug Menuez has come a long way since his teen years on Long Island in the ’70s. This is a [...]

Roxanne Lowit’s Fashion Week photos

. It’s hard to believe that New York Fashion Week has come and gone and that the couture crowd have already catwalked through London Fashion Week and are savoring their last day at Milan Fashion Week today as Paris Fashion Week kicks off. Seems like only yesterday that Roxanne Lowit was backstage at the shows [...]

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