Category Archives: Behind the Scenes

New work: Steven Lippman for Baha Mar resort and casino

The luxury hotels that will make up the Baha Mar resort and casino, set amid the white-sand beaches of Nassau, the Bahamas, won’t be completed till 2014, but the branding process—key to building buzz for the project—has already begun. In fact, SK+G, a Las Vegas–based advertising and marketing agency specializing in working with the hospitality [...]

The fight stuff: “Hunger Games” star Leven Rambin by Jorg Badura

. Actress Leven Rambin had to get in top form for her role in the highly anticipated action thriller The Hunger Games, and Shape magazine commissioned Jorg Badura to photograph just how mighty she is for its April issue. On set, Jorg—who is an athlete himself—wanted to give Leven time to warm up. He also [...]

Art Streiber on shooting “The Morning After” the Oscars for Entertainment Weekly

For the past seven years, Entertainment Weekly has commissioned Art Streiber to shoot portraits of Oscar winners the morning after they’ve been handed their golden statue. It’s extraordinarily fast-paced work that requires precision and grace. Here’s a look at Art’s portraits from this year’s “The Morning After” feature, on which he collaborated with Lisa Berman, [...]

Video: National Portrait Gallery interviews Nadav Kander

The National Portrait Gallery in London has been posting interviews with artists, sitters, and curators at its YouTube channel. Most recently, they posted an interview with Nadav Kander, whose work is part of the gallery’s collection. “There’s a lot of correspondence and communication between two human beings that goes on without one’s mouth moving,” he [...]

New work: Art Streiber shoots “The End of the Affair” for Town & Country

The February issue of Town & Country offers an unconventional—but still unimpeachably elegant—take on posh party-guest style with the feature “The End of the Affair.” The tantalizing setup: “It was a party people talked about for weeks: whose stockings were striped, whose sapphires shined bright, whose pants were diamond-studded. But under that perfectly set table [...]

New work: Sharon Stone by Jeff Lipsky

“People don’t believe me when I tell them that these images are barely retouched,” says Jeff Lipsky of his portraits of Sharon Stone for AARP The Magazine. I can see why they wouldn’t believe him—the actress, who will turn 54 on March 10, looks just as stunning as she did in her Basic Instinct days. [...]

New work: Jason “Giblin” Hindley for Subaru

Subaru is introducing a new car, the XV Crossover, and to announce the launch, they’ve just this month released an ad campaign produced by BJL in Manchester, England (they’re the most awarded agency outside London), and photographed by Jason “Giblin” Hindley, who worked with creative director Tom Richards and art director Adrian Dews. “We had [...]

Walter Iooss lands cover of Sports Illustrated’s new Swimsuit Issue

Sports Illustrated‘s 2012 Swimsuit Issue just hit stands yesterday—and we’re so excited that the cover photo, of 19-year-old model Kate Upton, is by Walter Iooss. Congratulations, Walter! . . Kate, who was photographed by the legendary Sports Illustrated contributor in Australia, told CBSNews.com that the image that made the magazine’s cover “was one of the [...]

Jim Fiscus shoots story-driven campaign for British Telecom

. For roughly five years now, two fictional characters by the name of Adam and Jane have been at the heart of an immensely popular story-driven ad campaign promoting British Telecom. The pair are so beloved in Britain, in fact, that they have one of the fastest-growing Facebook groups. Recently, Abbott Meade Vickers/bbdo, the London-based agency [...]

New work: John Offenbach for Credit Suisse (with behind-the-scenes video)

. What would Central Park look like if it were a vineyard? There’s no need to use your imagination to visualize this startling hypothetical—a new ad shot by John Offenbach for Credit Suisse brings it to life (above). Working from a helicopter, John photographed aerials of the Frescobaldi vineyards in Tuscany and of Central Park [...]

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