Behind the scenes at the Oscars, courtesy of Art Streiber

If attending the Academy Awards is a tough ticket to get, gaining backstage access on Hollywood’s biggest night is just about impossible. Unless you’re Art Streiber. He’s been shooting backstage for more than a decade (a plum, fun gig he talks about here) and will be there again on Sunday, for the 84th Annual Academy [...]

Arts blog interviews fashion and portrait photographer John Midgley

The blog NOMIO—which covers art, photography, fashion, music, and film—recently featured an interview with John Midgley that spans his fine-art influences (inspired by boyhood visits to the Louvre), the notion of how people perceive their mom, his racy Cyber Sentinel ad campaign, and his plans to personally rebuild the staircase in his Brooklyn brownstone (go, [...]

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: Ali Wentworth by Jeff Lipsky for Glamour magazine

Glamour commissioned Jeff Lipsky to photograph actress-comedian-author Ali Wentworth for its February issue, and he created these terrific, fun portraits of her. Jeff shot her in New York, working with Glamour photo editor Brian Marcus and prop stylist Rob Strauss. The first image you see here ran as a spread in the magazine. “I wanted [...]

New work: Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade by Matthew Rolston (updated with commentary by Emil Wilbekin)

For Essence‘s February cover story, creative director Greg Monfries and editor-at-large Emil Wilbekin worked with Matthew Rolston on a romantic-getaway photo story featuring actress Gabrielle Union and NBA star Dwyane Wade, who are also a gorgeous couple in real life. The idea was to show Gabrielle looking fabulous in resort-luxe attire, with Dwyane at his [...]

New work: Clint Eastwood and Dustin Lance Black by Art Streiber

Written By, the magazine of the Writers Guild of America, recently commissioned Art Streiber to photograph Clint Eastwood and Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter of Eastwood’s film J. Edgar, for its “Collaborators” issue. Here’s a look: . . .

New work: Ali Wentworth and Ali MacGraw by Art Streiber for Town & Country

Art Streiber has two stories in the February issue of Town & Country, and both feature famous Ali’s: He photographed Ali MacGraw for the cover story, “The Real MacGraw,” about the Love Story star’s happy life in Santa Fe; and he shot Ali Wentworth for “The Wisdom of Muffie,” a piece that the actress penned on [...]

Kwaku Alston shoots The Hollywood Reporter’s “Rule Breakers”

The Hollywood Reporter has just published a 22-page special issue dedicated to “Rule Breakers 2011″—”a year-end celebration of the people who successfully rocked and rattled the status quo in Hollywood.” The editors note that the issue was nine months in the making and features “a who’s who of Hollywood,” including Kim Kardashian, whom Kwaku Alston [...]

New work: Nino Muñoz photographs Molly Sims for Shape cover story

. Molly Sims offers her “best get-fit tips” in Shape‘s January 2012 cover story, which was photographed at Milk Studios in Los Angeles by Nino Muñoz. He worked with Shape creative director Ben Margherita and photo director Toni Paciello, though his chief collaborator was, of course, Molly herself. “Molly was energetic, funny, quick, smart, and [...]

Salma Hayek by Matthew Rolston

. With the holidays upon us, The New York Times has been highlighting books of note that would be a pleasure to give or receive. This past weekend, the newspaper’s Book Review featured The New York Times Magazine Photographs, edited by director of photography Kathy Ryan. The hefty 447-page tome collects “three decades of virtuosic [...]

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