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Clint Eastwood and Dustin Lance Black. Photo by Art Streiber for Written By magazine, November/December 2011 issue. Design director: Ron Tamariello.

Clint Eastwood. Photo by Art Streiber for Written By.

Photo by Art Streiber for Written By.

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“With the experience enabled by the new Microsoft Surface, you can collaborate in real-time with GLOBALedit on the first digital light table designed for creative production teams. The app leverages the 360-degree user interface and multi-touch capabilities of the Surface platform to bring photo editing, image markups, layout creation, and creative review sessions to life,” according to the Industrial Color blog.

Their sister company, Industrial Color Motion, put together an excellent video—taped at the National Retail Federation Convention earlier this month—that shows off the app’s value for professional imagemakers. In it, Steve Kalalian, president of Industrial Color, notes that working in a digital environment has rendered the time-honored practice of gathering around the light table and discussing ideas “cumbersome.” GLOBALedit offers a solution for those who want to collaborate and work on images “in a modern-traditional setting.”

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The poster for "About Face."

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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders‘ latest documentary, About Face, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last week, and the rosy reviews have started pouring in. A few excerpts:

Variety: Besides its bevy of gravity-defying beauties, “About Face” provides a window into the very insecurities to which models are supposed to be immune: They were supposed to act, walk and pose as though they’re the most glorious things ever born, and to try and believe it. But judging by the very likable subjects of Greenfield-Sanders’ film, they’re beset by the same uncertainties as the rest of us mortals. Read more: “About Face: The Supermodels, Then and Now”

The Hollywood Reporter: …Greenfield-Sanders, a portrait photographer and filmmaker who directed The Black List for HBO, clearly adores his subjects, whose careers spanned the 1940s through the ‘80s. They reveal a self-esteem that in many cases seems to have eluded them in their famous heydays. And they also present hard evidence against society’s decree that post-50 is not a sexually viable age for women, to paraphrase one of these runway survivors.

In addition to the candid interviews, shot with Greenfield-Sanders’ customary elegance, the film digs up to-die-for archive material from designer shows and fashion shoots, some going back to the dawn of advertising. Read more: “Isabella Rossellini, Jerry Hall, Marisa Berenson, Christie Brinkley and Cheryl Tiegs are among the celebrated models who reflect on their careers and on getting older in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ captivating group portrait.”

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Click to watch Krista Smith of Vanity Fair discuss "About Face" with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

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About Face, as I’ve mentioned here before, derived from an assignment Timothy shot for Vanity Fair, which in turn inspired him to shoot a series of portraits (titled “Supermodels of the 70s and 80s”) that were exhibited at the Steven Kasher Gallery last year.

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A screenshot of Timothy's page at the Steven Kasher Gallery website. Click to see more.

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“I have always been interested in how we deal with aging in our hopelessly ‘youth oriented’ society,” Timothy explained in the exhibition’s press release. “These women, now in their fifties, were once the reigning queens of American beauty. As ultimate icons of world-wide marketing, I knew their stories would be extraordinary and I wanted to hear what they had to say. For the portraits, I used my 8×10 Deardorff and also filmed a documentary of interviews and mise-en-scene.” Read more: “Supermodels of the 70s and 80s” exhibition press release

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Click to view video of the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony. Lauren Greenfield is presented with the U.S. Directing Award for Documentary at about the 1:29 mark.

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Congratulations to Lauren Greenfield, who at the Sundance Film Festival last night was presented with the U.S. Directing Award for Documentary for her film The Queen of Versailles. “I want to especially thank Jackie Segal and her family for bravely sticking with the story when it changed in unexpected ways,” Lauren said in her acceptance speech. She also thanked the team at the Sundance Documentary Program, “who saw a social-issue film where others saw a reality show.”

The film’s synopsis:

With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of the American dream. We open on the triumphant construction of the biggest house in America, a sprawling, 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles. Since a booming time-share business built on the real-estate bubble is financing it, the economic crisis brings progress to a halt and seals the fate of its owners. We witness the impact of this turn of fortune over the next two years in a riveting film fraught with delusion, denial, and self-effacing humor. (Read more: “Queen of Versailles—Online Film Guide, Sundance Institute.”)

As we noted last week, Magnolia Pictures purchased The Queen of Versailles, and The Hollywood Reporter indicates the film will be released in theaters this summer. “The Queen of Versailles brilliantly encapsulates the salient issues of the American economic downturn, while also being one of the jaw-droppingly entertaining films I’ve seen in a very long time,” Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles said in a statement quoted by THR. “Lauren Greenfield is an exceptionally talented filmmaker with a wonderfully humanistic touch, and she has found a truly magnetic, charismatic star in Jackie Siegel.” (Read more: “Sundance 2012: Magnolia Buys ‘Queen Of Versailles’ Documentary.”)

Here are some more stills of Lauren accepting her award, as well as one of Frank Evers—her husband and one of the film’s producers, proudly watching from the audience, his eyes filled with tears…

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Lauren Greenfield making her way to the podium to accept her award.

Lauren's husband, Frank Evers—who is also a producer of "The Queen of Versailles"—watches from the audience.

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"Welcome to Leipzig." Photos by Uwe Duettmann.

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Here’s a look at some of the other portraits Uwe shot during the session. Such nice young men…

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Shaban Ismaili. Photo by Uwe Duettmann.

Clockwise from top left: Pascal Borel, Matthias Buszkowiak, Fabian Franke, and Daniel Rosin. Photos by Uwe Duettmann.

Timo Rost. Photo by Uwe Duettmann.

Clockwise from top left: Steven Lewerenz, Christian Mueller, Alexander Laas, and Sebastian Heidinger. Photos by Uwe Duettmann.

Thiago Rockenbach. Photo by Uwe Duettmann.

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Photo by Roxanne Lowit. "This gown on the stairs at Christian Dior Couture is a very modern-day Scarlett O’Hara," says Roxanne. "Dramatic and gorgeous!"

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And here’s a photo Roxanne took before her Paris expedition, of Karlie Kloss backstage at Dior:

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Photo by Roxanne Lowit. "This is one of my favorite muses, Karlie Kloss, as a harlequin backstage at Dior," says Roxanne. "She is not only a dream to photograph, she is also a delightful person."

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Nick Offerman, star of "Parks and Recreation." Photo by Matthias Clamer. "Nick is a semiprofessional woodworker," explains Matthias—hence the chiseled coiff.

Nick Offerman. Photo by Matthias Clamer.

Key art for the Lifetime series "Dance Moms," photographed by Matthias Clamer.

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Title: “The Electron Tube”

“The electron tube is a marvelous device. It makes possible the performing operations, amazing in conception with a precision and certainty that are astounding. Its construction requires materials from every corner of the earth. Its future possibilities, even in the light of present-day accomplishments, are but dimly foreseen.” (from the 1937 edition of the RCA Receiving Tube Manual, http://www.hearthamplifiers.com/page9.html)

Vacuum tubes were critical to the development of electronic technology, which drove the expansion and commercialization of radio communication and broadcasting, television, radar, sound reproduction, large telephone networks, analog and digital computers, and industrial process control. The electron tube also made possible the Colossus computer that broke German code during WWII. But the tubes’ reign was not to last. Within a generation, the invention of the transistor, a smaller, reliable, less power-hungry device spelled the end for the beautiful and miraculous vacuum tube. To those who worked with vacuum tubes, there will never be anything that can equal them. (adapted from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube)

Format: 4×5 large format.

Film: B&W / TRI-X.

Prop stylist: Cindy Sandmann.

All images © Craig Cutler.

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