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Estimates: You can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them. They’re a bear to assemble and often just as complicated to parse if you’re the one doing the hiring. And the fact that everyone uses their own form/format only adds a layer of headache-inducing complexity.
That, at least, is roughly how Allegra Wilde describes [...]
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It seems like everyone wants to be a rock star. Rock stardom symbolizes power, adoration, rebelliousness, individuality with impunity, and really cool clothes. But I wonder if the myth of the rock star would loom as large if not for rock photographers, who harnessed the electric appeal of these performers and their lives and ignited [...]
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When Lürzer’s Archive invited the creative community to submit congratulatory videos in honor of their 25th anniversary, they learned that in addition to being an award-winning photographer, Nadav Kander also looks rather fetching in pearls.
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For more videos, which were sent in by illustrators, ad execs, and photographers from all over the world, go here.
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“Starting Today, You’re a Brand: Building Your Brand & Your Business” is the last of the PhotoPlus seminars I’ll be writing about here. (I hope the previous posts have been of some use to you.) The panel was led by Lynn Martin and featured Ken Carbone of the branding and design agency Carbone Smolan, Shama [...]
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I took six pages (!) of notes at the seminar “Stepping Up to Larger Production Commercial Shoots,” which was moderated by PDN features editor Conor Risch. The panelists: photographer Kareem Black; Celeste Holt-Walters, senior art producer at McCann-Erickson; Stockland Martel photo agent Kathryn Tyrrel; and Bette Wilkes, executive producer for her husband, photographer Stephen Wilkes. [...]
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PhotoPlus Expo wrapped up on Saturday evening after three busy days of seminars, trade-show-floor activity, and meeting and greeting. The seminars ran the gamut from the technical to the inspirational, but I mostly focused on the business ones, attending a number of panel discussions that—each in its own way—aimed to explain how to succeed. I [...]
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The latest Montauk dispatch from Walter. He took this one from his bedroom window last night at 6:15.
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Yesterday, after I wrote about agencies asking photographers for treatments, I asked Heather Morton, of HMAb fame, about her experience with this practice. She sent me a link to a super-helpful post that she did a while back that includes commentary from various people in the industry. Some highlights:
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“I feel like sometimes they are a [...]
Roxanne Lowit’s “Backstage Dior”
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You know how they say it’s a form of flattery to repost someone’s tweets (to retweet, as it were)? I’m going to do something similar here, linking to a post by our fellow reps Bernstein & Andriulli at their Spread/Art Culture blog. My friend there, Matthew Goodrich, alerted me to a studio visit that their [...]