Monthly Archives: August 2011

Highlights from other photo blogs

The summer’s been a bit slow, so I haven’t done one of these roundups in a while. Here’s a look at some highlights from other photo blogs over the last couple of weeks: . . Sean O’Hagan of The Guardian penned a thought-provoking column on rock stars and photography asserting that “photography has often spoken [...]

Lady Gaga’s first creative collaboration with Polaroid inspires charity exhibition

Remember when Polaroid named Lady Gaga its creative director, resulting in the Polaroid Grey Label line? Well, the GL10 Instant Mobile Printer is the first product born of this unlikely partnership, and like Gaga herself, it’s making a grand entrance. For the upcoming “50|50|50″ exhibition, Polaroid invited 50 artists from around the globe to use [...]

25 vintage tennis shots by Walter Iooss

The U.S. Open started yesterday, inspiring Walter Iooss to pull together a selection of his tennis photos from the 1970s and ’80s. It’s especially fun to look at these images knowing that Andy Samberg impersonated some of these athletes for the New York Times Magazine cover story that Walter shot for Kathy Ryan, the magazine’s [...]

Walter Iooss’ Montauk: Hurricane Irene surge photos

Walter Iooss was perfectly positioned to capture some of the drama of the surges produced by Hurricane Irene as she wailed through Montauk yesterday. Here are five photos that he sent my way to share with you here… .

International Photography Awards winners announced

.The jurors of the 2011 International Photography Awards have named their selections for subcategory and category winners, and we’re ecstatic that Kwaku Alston, Matthias Clamer, Nadav Kander, and John Offenbach are among their favorites. Our congratulations to them and to their fellow winners. Well done! “Category winners,” the IPA’s site explains, “will move on as [...]

Steve Jobs in the early years

. Steve Jobs‘ resignation from Apple has led many to wonder about the future of his groundbreaking, culture-defining company. (The Wall Street Journal is polling its readers about the fate of Apple, in fact.) But I can’t help but feel distressed about what his stepping down says about his health.”I have always said if there [...]

CC52, Week 21: “The Falling Market”

. Week 21 of the new series CC52: A Year of Personal Work by Craig Cutler… Title: “Falling Market.” Concept: To capture falling coins in motion. All images © Craig Cutler. Follow CC52 here. .

Walter Iooss shoots Andy Samberg as McEnroe, Agassi, and other tennis pros for NYT Magazine

. Yesterday Arem Duplessis, the design director of The New York Times Magazine, tweeted a sneak peek of this Sunday’s cover: a re-creation of a famous 1980 shot of John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, with comedian Andy Samberg playing both men and photographed by Walter Iooss. Well, that image is

New York Times Magazine revisits 9 classic images from its archive

For a new online feature titled “Time Lapse,” the editors of The New York Times Magazine selected nine photos from the upcoming book The New York Times Magazine Photographs and had the subjects rephotographed, as well as interviewed. It’s fascinating to see how these people changed in the years since their photos were taken for [...]

Spotlight: Uwe Duettmann

Many people think of Uwe Duettmann in terms of his automotive photography, and it’s true that he’s highly skilled at portraying cars from any number of perspectives. Might, machine, materials, the experience of the drive, sex appeal, practical appeal, humorous appeal—he has expressed all of this and more for clients ranging from Mercedes to Mini, [...]

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