Nadav Kander: “Just the right amount of wrong”

For a new campaign for the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Fallon came up with a tagline that perfectly encapsulates the hotel’s swanky combination of hipness and decadence: “Just the right amount of wrong.” Then they commissioned a photographer who could visually express the campaign’s promise of an outlandishly—and stylishly—good time. Specifically, Nadav Kander, who worked [...]

Florence Welch by Nadav Kander (updated with more portraits)

. In addition to fronting the chart-topping group Florence and the Machine, the towering, flame-haired Florence Welch has become a muse for the fashion world. And no wonder—she cuts quite a compelling figure. Any photographer would be thrilled to shoot her, but for a feature in the new issue of Rolling Stone, creative director Jodi [...]

Nadav Kander photos in “Coal + Ice” exhibition and at Paris Photo

. The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing is currently hosting “Coal + Ice,” an exhibition that “seeks to do something unprecedented: to chart the horrific grandeur of our effects on the planet, from the coal mines beneath our feet to the dwindling glaciers on our highest mountains,” to quote Evan Osnos of The [...]

Nadav Kander photographs actress Rebecca Hall for Telegraph Magazine

Rebecca Hall—who delivered standout performances in films like Vicky Cristina Barcelona and The Town, yet remains just under the radar—is poised for stardom. In the ghost story The Awakening, she’s got her first leading role, and though the movie isn’t out till November 11, the press is already taking notice. This past Sunday, Telegraph Magazine [...]

Creative Review issues its new Photography Annual

The November issue of Britain’s Creative Review is also its Photography Annual, with 85 of its 196 pages featuring work singled out for recognition by the magazine’s editors. Among those chosen for this year’s photo annual is Nadav Kander, for his portrait of rapper Tinie Tempah, originally taken for The Observer (see more here). . [...]

National Portrait Gallery acquires Nadav Kander portrait

The National Portrait Gallery in London made a number of new acquisitions recently, including this 2009 portrait of the British comedian Matt Lucas by Nadav Kander… . . The photograph is on view through January 8 at the National Portrait Gallery in an exhibition titled “Comedians: From the 1940s to Now,” which also features work [...]

Communication Arts releases its 2011 Photography Annual

The competition was intense for Communication Arts‘ 2011 Photography Annual, with more than 5,000 entries vying for the approbation of the five-member jury. Among the 166 winners were three of our photographers: Nadav Kander, Art Streiber, and Liz Von Hoene, whose winning images are posted below. (Full gallery here.) We congratulate them and all of [...]

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 [...]

Nadav Kander photographs Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill for New York mag

The fall movie season is nearly upon us, and with it will come a new Brad Pitt film. In Moneyball, he plays Billy Beane, general manager for the Oakland A’s, who’ve fallen on hard times financially. Brad’s costar is Jonah Hill, who plays Peter Brand, an energetic upstart who’s convinced he can help Beane transform [...]

Revisiting Nadav Kander’s “Rest/Stay” series on motels and love hotels

Have you noticed the “Love Hotels” portfolio at Nadav Kander’s page at stocklandmartel.com? I hadn’t looked at it since stocklandmartel.com relaunched earlier this year, so I thought I’d revisit it. The 17 images on display in “Love Hotels” are from Nadav’s “Rest/Stay” series, which centers on motel rooms in America and Europe, as well as [...]

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