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New portraits by Matthias Clamer: David Cross, Sandra Lee, Mick Fleetwood, and Chris Elliott

Matthias Clamer has had a flurry of new portrait assignments recently: comedian David Cross, Food Network star Sandra Lee, rock icon Mick Fleetwood, and comedian Chris Elliott. Here’s a look. To see more, visit Matthias’ blog. .

Matthias Clamer shoots Bruno Mars for Playboy cover

The April issue of Playboy is devoted to one of the most reliable combinations in the history of forever: “Sex + Music.” Silken pop singer Bruno Mars is the cover boy, posing with Playmate Raquel Pomplun for our own Matthias Clamer. “I think I nicked that pose from an old Helmut Newton photograph,” he says. [...]

New work: “Dance Moms” and Nick Offerman by Matthias Clamer

Matthias Clamer recently photographed key art for the new Lifetime reality series Dance Moms, shooting in Pittsburgh with BPG, and portraits of Nick Offerman, star of the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, sporting a sturdy do. Here’s a look: . . .

Celebrity portraits, ad campaigns, lowriders, pig farmers, and other highlights from Matthias Clamer’s new website

There’s an ongoing debate about what a commercial photographer’s website should be and how it should function. Some people shun Flash, while others embrace it; some insist on literal category names, when others prefer something more personal; some think visitors should be able to pull images right off the site, and others do everything in [...]

Matthias Clamer and “The Machine That Makes You Musical”

. The New York Times Magazine yesterday published a feature on Smule, the California-based company that brought us Ocarina, an app that makes an iPhone into a flute, of sorts. The magazine commissioned Matthias Clamer to create a photo illustration (above) to go with the story. As writer Rob Walker notes in the piece, “the [...]

James Dyson by Matthias Clamer

Wired U.K. commissioned Matthias Clamer to photograph Sir James Dyson, the man who revolutionized the vacuum cleaner, for the cover of its November issue… . . The magazine’s website features a gallery of portraits from Matthias’ shoot. Click here or on the image below for a look. And to read “The Seventh Disruption: How James [...]

New work by Matthias Clamer: Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Raising Hope,” and Packers prez Mark Murphy

Here’s a look at some vibrant new work by Matthias Clamer, starting with a cover story for Bloomberg Businessweek on Mark Murphy, president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers, with jubilant Packers fans… . . And then there’s this series of covers for British music mag Q, in honor of its 25th anniversary: Eddie [...]

New work: Matthias Clamer’s portraits of eccentric comedian/musician Reggie Watts

Comedian/musician Reggie Watts has been variously described as “deliciously strange” (by The Los Angeles Times), a “comic genius” (by GQ, who featured him in its 2010 Man of the Year issue), and “spectacularly original” (by New York magazine). Which is a lot of quirk and talent to capture in a portrait. Matthias Clamer, who recently [...]

International Photography Awards winners announced

.The jurors of the 2011 International Photography Awards have named their selections for subcategory and category winners, and we’re ecstatic that Kwaku Alston, Matthias Clamer, Nadav Kander, and John Offenbach are among their favorites. Our congratulations to them and to their fellow winners. Well done! “Category winners,” the IPA’s site explains, “will move on as [...]

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