Whose side are you on: 15 portraits shot in profile

. Portraits in which the subject meets the photographer’s gaze are justifiably the norm, but there’s plenty to be said for shooting a profile view. You feel somehow that the photographer is letting you in on something—something that subjects themselves may not be aware of at the time… .

Star power: 14 great celebrity portraits

. Bill, Maureen, and the rest of the team at Stockland Martel hosted our annual Hollywood East Cocktail Party a couple of weeks ago, as a way to personally thank our clients in the entertainment industry here on the East Coast. The event, which was attended by photo editors, art buyers, and creatives, was held [...]

How stylist Sam Spector helped Daniel Radcliffe “get his sartorial priorities straight”

. GQ recently chronicled the evolution of Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe from “impish fop to dapper gentleman-child,” a transformation that occurred under the guiding eye of Stockland Martel stylist Sam Spector. Sam has been working with Radcliffe since last year, when he styled a campaign (shot by Matthias Clamer) for the Broadway show How [...]

Spotlight: Matthias Clamer

Matthias Clamer likes quirkiness and humor, but he also likes stealth. “For me, humor in pictures works when you use it in small doses—hints, not obvious jokes,” he explains. “Just one element, not multiples. And subtle enough that some people don’t even see it. It needs to be discovered and ambiguous.” In his personal work, [...]

Doug Menuez and Matthias Clamer among the winners in PDN Faces contest

PDN has announced the winners of its 2011 Faces portrait competition with a big gallery section in the August issue. The contest is among the most popular sponsored by the magazine, so you can just imagine how many entries were competing for the admiration of the four judges: Jade-Snow Moy Joachim, who is a photo [...]

Matthias Clamer on his 16-minute shoot with “The Book of Mormon” cast

People magazine recently commissioned Matthias Clamer to photograph the cast of The Book of Mormon with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who cowrote and scored the Tony-winning Broadway musical. (The two also masterminded the long-running Comedy Central hit South Park.) He got the shots you see here in 16 minutes. . . “People was very [...]

New work: Matthias Clamer shoots Conan O’Brien having a lightbulb moment

Fast Company‘s list of “The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011″ includes none other than lanky late-night host Conan O’Brien. Chuck Salter is the writer who takes readers through the making of an episode of Conan. (At one point, O’Brien explains to Salter: “The thing I keep telling everyone is ‘The only way we [...]

Gallery: Musicians by Matthias Clamer

Matthias Clamer isn’t a music photographer per se, but he does get commissioned an awful lot to shoot bands and musicians from all the major genres, including hip-hop, metal, rock, indie, pop, electronic, and punk. Maybe it’s because his style of photography—vivid, dynamic, sometimes quirky, often impish—elevates even something as ordinary as a band portrait [...]

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 [...]

New work: Matthias Clamer shoots Brian Williams for New York mag

Matthias Clamer photographed Brian Williams for a New York magazine feature on the NBC Nightly News anchor’s “comic stylings.” The first two images below appeared with the story, published in the April 24 issue, and the third portrait is an outtake that Matthias posted at his blog. .

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