Do we see an upturn in automotive advertising, perhaps?

There’s no question that automotive advertising spending stalled with the recession, but recently there have been signs that this category is picking up speed. We’re not talking a full recovery, but progress is being made. “Ad spending for cars and credit cards has come roaring back, helping drive 8.8% growth in 2010 U.S. spending for [...]

Jan Steinhilber’s birds

For the past two and a half years, Jan Steinhilber has been working on a personal project comprising portraits of birds—an ongoing series that was recently honored by the AOP. To me, the bird photos seemed like a departure from his commercial work, which is primarily automotive, conceptual still lifes, and crisp interiors and landscapes. [...]

John Midgley and Jan Steinhilber honored by AOP Photographers Awards

Britain’s AOP (Association of Photographers) announced the winners of its 28th annual Photographers Awards, and we’re pleased to congratulate honorees John Midgley and Jan Steinhilber. John was awarded in two categories: Commissioned Advertising Single, for his portrait of Oscar-winning actor John Lithgow, and Commissioned Editorial Series, for his portraits of NYC artisans for Men’s Journal. [...]

SMart Book 2011, our latest photo annual, is now online!

Earlier this year, we threw a big party to celebrate the release of SMart Book 2011, our latest limited-edition collectible photo annual, which we printed with three different covers—by Lauren Greenfield, Roxanne Lowit, and Liz Von Hoene. And now, we’re happy to announce, the book is available to view online at issuu.com. . . The [...]

Presenting… 22 new editorial and advertising highlights

I’ll be taking next week off, but to tide you over, here’s a look at 22 of our photographers’ latest editorial and advertising shoots, as featured in our spring e-newsletter. See you on Monday, April 4… .   . .

Spotlight: Jan Steinhilber

Communication Arts published an interview with Jan Steinhilber in December 2009 that describes the German photographer thusly: “Photographer Jan Steinhilber studied graphic design with the ambition to become an art director—and accidentally discovered photography during the studies. He got deeper into it by working as an assistant for different photographers and finally decided to make [...]

Jan Steinhilber on lighting something that’s not there

. Jan Steinhilber recently shot a campaign for Porsche’s Black Edition series, the 911 and Boxster, for art directors Zoran Vasic and Julia Fuhl at Kemper Kommunication in Frankfurt, Germany. Interestingly, all of the concrete elements of the images (the cars and backgrounds) were done in CGI, while the arguably ephemeral one—the light—was photographed. I’ll [...]

Gallery: Car Photography, Nine Ways

Nine very different takes on the automotive genre. Featuring Stockland Martel photographers Jorg Badura, Fulvio Bonavia, David Drebin, Uwe Duettmann, Kai Uwe Gundlach, Jason Hindley, John Midgley, Martin Sigal, and Jan Steinhilber. . Click on any of the images to view the complete gallery.

18 new advertising and editorial highlights

We just sent out our Summer 2010 e-Newsletter. (If you’d like to be on our mailing list for next time, please click here.) It features highlights from our photographers’ recent work in advertising… . Jim Fiscus for Schick (See also: New work by Jim Fiscus: Schick and the Atlanta Ballet) .. . Roxanne Lowit for [...]

New work: Jan Steinhilber for Hummer, Isklar, and Nokia

We’ve got a triple shot of Jan for you today: . A personal project featuring a Hummer prototype. “It’s a 3D piece that was created especially for these images, taking a prototype as reference that never made it into the markets,” Jan told me via email. He shot the backgrounds you see here but materialized [...]

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