Agency: Quigley-Simpson

Client: Chase and United

Art director: Bret Ridgeway

Art buyer: Deb Grisham

Set designer: Walter Barnett

Wardrobe stylists: Michael Cioffoletti and Sharon Williams

Producer: Lynda Goldstein

Photographer: Art Streiber

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Photo by Art Streiber.

Photo by Art Streiber.

Photo by Art Streiber.

Photo by Art Streiber.

Photo by Art Streiber.

Photo by Art Streiber.

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PDN is one of the major supporters of a photo competition aimed at raising awareness of global health issues, and with the entry deadline coming up, our friends at the magazine have asked us to help them spread the word. The BD Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition seeks photos on the theme of global health, specifically ones that “showcase efforts directed at fighting disease and addressing public health issues. Your submissions should showcase efforts directed at fighting disease and addressing public health issues. Photos should document human suffering and the health care response to the following topics: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, measles, tetanus, diabetes, cervical cancer, infant and maternal mortality, chronic and infectious diseases. Also of interest are health issues surrounding disaster relief, healthcare worker safety, healthcare access, vaccination and diagnostics research, infection control and Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI’s).” (More on the contest’s rules here.)

The deadline to enter is February 29, and there is no entry fee. As for the judges, they are all top-notch: David Griffin, visuals editor of The Washington Post; Jon Jones, photo editor of the U.K.’s Sunday Times Magazine; Laara Matsen, photo editor of D2 magazine; Kira Pollack, director of photography at Time; and Marcel Saba, director of Redux Pictures.

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Some of last year’s winners…

Photo by Mary F. Calvert, winner in the category of Best Global Health Story, Professional. "Polio victim Abubakar, 6, crawls next to the footprint of his mother at the family home in Kano. The photo is part of a series that brings attention to a highly infectious virus that cripples children it does not kill."

Photo by Rodrigo Alfaro, who won for Best Global Health Story, Amateur. "A woman with her sick child waited overnight for a ride home from the hospital. Alfaro’s photo essay focuses on unsafe childbirth practices in Paraguay, responsible for a high rate of deaths in newborns and mothers."

Photo by Carlos Cazalis, who won for Best Global Health Image, Professional. "A Haitian woman being checked for cholera at a field hospital near Port-au-Prince. Cazalis’ photos document Haiti’s struggles, including its battle with cholera, a waterborne disease that spreads through the water system and rivers."

Photo by Gerardo Sabado, who won for Best Global Health Image, Amateur. "Patients with multiple drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in a hospital’s isolation ward in Manila. Sabado’s work highlights a strain of TB where first-line drugs used to treat patients are ineffective."

Photo by Stefano de Luigi, who won for Best Global Health Multimedia, Professional. "A child in India regains her sight after a corneal transplant. Stefano de Luigi’s multimedia emphasizes the importance of education, support and prevention (when possible) for blind people in developing countries."

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BD is a medical technology company that “dedicated to improving people’s health throughout the world.” In addition to PDN, LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph is a supporter of the BD Hope for a Healthy World Photo Competition. If your work is selected, it will become part of a traveling photo exhibition sponsored by BD that will open at LOOK3 in Charlottesville, Virginia, June 7 to 9. The winning work will also be part of a gallery hosted at PDNonline.com and will be represented in this year’s PDN Photo Annual, which is the June issue. (See more of last year’s winners here.)

There are cash and other prizes, too:

• Best Global Health Story:
  $5,000 Cash
• Best Global Health Image:
  $2,500 Cash
• Best Global Health Multimedia:
  $2,500 Cash

All Winners Will Receive:

• PhotoServe Portfolio ($860 value)
• 1 year subscription to PDN
• 2012 PDN PhotoPlus Expo Gold Expo Pass
• All-access Big Love Pass to the 2012 LOOK3 Festival

Find out more at bdphotocompetition.com. And if you’re interested in working with BD, take note: They’re open to hearing from photographers. More on that here.

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Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade. Photo by Matthew Rolston for Essence, February 2012 issue.

Photo by Matthew Rolston for Essence.

Photos by Matthew Rolston for Essence.

Photo by Matthew Rolston for Essence.

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Title: “One Sander, One Drill”

This week, Craig collaborated with Stephen Meierding on a short film using simple power tools to create motion.

Original concept: Stephen Meierding

Creative direction: Craig Cutler, Stephen Meierding

Original music: Sami Jano

Editing: Stephen Meierding

Special thanks to Shelly Rangsiyakul, Jarren Vink, Tre Cassetta, and Jeff Cate.

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Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover of the redesigned Harper's Bazaar, March 2012 issue.

Harper’s Bazaar will debut its first redesign in 10 years with its March issue, which features Gwyneth Paltrow (above).

Excerpt: The magazine is larger by one inch, the paper quality is noticeably thicker and there is new cover typography. Inside the issue, the pages look less cluttered and thrown together, with more white space, while sections are more tightly edited. So far, there’s less celebrity and the related popcorn stories that can come with that. But in some ways, it still feels like the old Harper’s Bazaar. The black logo is the same. The emphasis is still on high fashion.

“It’s going to take a while to get through it,” Bailey said with some pride, paging through all the advertisements in the front of the book. “It’s up 15.5 percent in ad pages, you know. We’re going to be here for a while.”

Link: http://www.wwd.com/media-news/media-features/bazaar-redesigns-to-reenergize-5595001?src=rss/recentstories/20120201

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SPD’s “Favorite Magazine” series continues, with Garden & Gun getting a shout-out from Erin Mayes, a partner at EmDash Design. “I love Garden & Gun…so much I could eat it,” she says. “It’s elegant without trying to be something that it’s not. The design and photography is all really well crafted. And reading it reminds me why I appreciate all the oddities of the South.”

Link: http://www.spd.org/2012/01/spd-47-erin-mayes-favorite-mag.php

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Fast Company’s Co.Design reports on Mad Men actors doing ad campaigns for major brands, like Jon Hamm voicing a Mercedes-Benz spot and Christina Hendricks posing for a series of London Fog ads.

Excerpt: Nominated for 17 Emmys at this Sunday’s awards show, Mad Men’s critical success is now being matched by its cultural reach. Only four seasons in, has spawned a renewed interest in clinking cocktails and dapper dressing. Indeed, London Fog was aiming for a Mad Men-inspired look for its campaign, which was shot by Nino Muñoz, says Marder. “We played off of the Mad Men vibe incorporating a feel that could work in either decade,” she says. “We wanted to give a nod to the show but also infuse the modern aspect of London Fog as well.”

Link: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662205/mad-men-stars-shill-for-real-brands-blurring-the-shows-boundaries-video

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Bloomberg Markets is launching Bloomberg Pursuits, a lifestyle magazine aimed at the luxury market, reports WWD.

Excerpt: You can’t get our audience anywhere else,” said David Bowling, advertising director at Bloomberg Pursuits, noting distribution is highly international, with about 60 percent of the audience outside the U.S., in financial centers such as the U.K., Japan, Hong Kong and Germany. The average household income of Bloomberg Pursuits readers is $452,000, and 90 percent are male.

The debut issue contains 46 edit pages and 30 ad pages, from brands such as Hermès, Chanel, Zegna, Rolls-Royce and NetJets. A second issue will be published in the fourth quarter, and the title is scheduled to go quarterly in 2013.

Link: http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/bloombergs-fashionable-pursuits-5577542

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WWD also reports that food mags are experiencing a dip in ad revenues: “According to the Publishers Information Bureau, food and food product advertising in magazines dropped 17 percent in 2011, a larger decline than any other advertising group (for example: financial, insurance and real estate went up 13 percent, accessories went up 6 percent and cosmetics was up 4 percent).” But some titles are gaining: Bon Appétit rose 12 percent from its redesign last May through January. Publisher Pamela Drucker Mann and editor in chief Adam Rappaport “have been quickly repositioning the magazine as a lifestyle and culture food magazine,” and Drucker Mann notes that “80 percent of new advertisers in 2011 came from luxury or lifestyle and only 20 percent came from food.”

Link: http://www.wwd.com/media-news/advertising/food-advertisers-cinching-belts-5595461?src=rss/recentstories/

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Screenshot of a recent Pro Photo Daily newsletter.

And if you haven’t already signed up for American Photography’s Pro Photo Daily newsletter, you should consider doing so. It’s free (sign up here) and delivers industry news collected from all over the Web, directly to your inbox. David Schonauer, formerly editor in chief of American Photo, produces Pro Photo Daily with Jeff Roberts, formerly the VP/group publisher of Hachette’s Photo/Electronics Group, which publishes American Photo, and before that the longtime publisher of PDN. The two men launched the newsletter just a couple of weeks ago.

“The idea is to provide professional and advanced photo enthusiasts with a daily source of news about photography—camera trade news, industry news, tips on the business—and also a glimpse at the art and creative side of photography,” David explained to me by email. “We’re aggregating news from a fairly broad swath of sources. I scan the Web so the audience doesn’t have to. That’s for now, and I think you’ll be seeing it develop over the next month or two with a blog that people can link to. We want to feature photographers in the American Photography annual, to tell their stories and look at their businesses and creative projects. We’ll be getting guest bloggers to contribute their insights on the photo world and perhaps do some live blogging and Tweeting from events.”

Pro Photo Daily on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pro-Photo-Daily/210298089061344

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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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