Monthly Archives: July 2011

CC52, Week 15: “Post-It”

. Week 15 of the new series CC52: A Year of Personal Work by Craig Cutler… Post-It: A piece of paper with an adhesive strip on one side, designed to be stuck prominently to an object. Format: 8×10 large-format color negative. All sketches and photos © Craig Cutler. Follow CC52 here. .

Steven Lippman’s mixed-media “Waves”

Last year, Steven Lippman created a series of mixed-media works called “Waves” that was exhibited at the Ron Herman men’s store in Malibu. He crafted the eight signature pieces from photographs he took over the years, combined with layered treatments of metal, wood, plants, and melted Polaroids. Here’s a look at these unique works, the [...]

New work: Michael Muller shoots final “Entourage” ads and video

. Michael Muller has shot the campaigns for the HBO hit series Entourage for the last four years, including for Season 8, the final season, which premieres July 24. If you live in New York or Los Angeles, you probably recognize the ones below—they’re everywhere… . . Michael also directed a spot for Season 8… [...]

New work: David Drebin shoots “Get Loot” campaign for MasterCard

. McCann-Erickson in New York commissioned David Drebin to shoot the campaign for the new Western Union Prepaid MasterCard. The idea is that you when you sign up for the card, you’ll get two free movie tickets. So the ad, naturally, looks just like a movie poster and is now on view in theaters across [...]

The Brooklyn Museum to present Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ “The Latino List”

. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders—who shot the award-winning portrait series “The Black List,” which in turn inspired multiple exhibitions of the work and two HBO documentaries directed by Timothy—recently completed a new series of portraits titled “The Latino List,” as well as a documentary film of the same name. Starting next month, selected photos will be on [...]

Doug Menuez and Matthias Clamer among the winners in PDN Faces contest

PDN has announced the winners of its 2011 Faces portrait competition with a big gallery section in the August issue. The contest is among the most popular sponsored by the magazine, so you can just imagine how many entries were competing for the admiration of the four judges: Jade-Snow Moy Joachim, who is a photo [...]

This week’s highlights from other photo blogs

. Verve Photo, which is devoted to documentary photography, highlighted the image by young Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter, along with a story about it written by Depoorter. Here’s an excerpt: “I took this picture during my second trip through Russia in the winter of 2008/2009. I met the woman a few days before, in the [...]

Jeff Lipsky photographs Jaycee Dugard for People magazine

The new issue of People arrives on newsstands today, and the cover story is on Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped at the age of 14, in 1991, and endured 18 years in captivity before being rescued. The magazine is featuring an eight-page excerpt from her memoir, A Stolen Life, and commissioned Jeff Lipsky—whom they knew [...]

Walter Iooss at 16

. Got an email from Walter Iooss yesterday. It came in too late to post, so I saved it for today. Here it is: . “50 years ago today I had my first paid assignment from Sports Illustrated. I was driven by my father to Groton, CT, from East Orange, N.J., to photograph an 83-your-old [...]

Gallerists’ work goes on view in “Don’t Quit Your Day Job.” Plus: An exhibition by a Time mag photo editor.

A new exhibition opening tonight at Hasted Kraeutler in New York City gives gallerists a chance to enjoy a bit of limelight while raising money for a good cause. All of the work on view in “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” was created by gallery owners, among them Brian Clamp of ClampArt, Peter MacGill of [...]

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