Every year since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London has invited a distinguished architect to design a pavilion for its lawn, and the resulting stricture has almost always inspired debate—not just among arbiters of architecture and design but also among the locals. The Serpentine is in Hyde Park, in the center of the city, and [...]
It’s hard to imagine that Anvil ever had to battle for recognition. The heavy-metal band, whom the press has crowned the “demigods of Canadian rock,” have been basking in nothing but admiring attention since Anvil! The Story of Anvil opened in April. The award-winning documentary chronicles the group’s rise and fall and struggle to rise [...]
Sometimes a photographer’s personal interests dovetail perfectly with a client’s needs, and he or she is hired to do what they love (take photos) while doing something else that they love. In Michael Muller’s case, that something else was swimming with sharks.
For a recent campaign for Aquatimer, a series of high-end diving watches by Switzerland’s [...]
Beth Ditto, frontwoman of Olympia, Washington, punk-rock band the Gossip, has become something of a muse for photographers. With her short, choppy black hair, luminous pale skin, bowtie red lips, and ample proportions, she expresses more glamour, dacadence, and danger with one kohl-eyed glance than most professional models do. Recently, she did a sitting in [...]
It’s amazing how far artists are willing to go to bring their ideas to life. For his latest personal project, “The Unfortunate Moment of Misunderstanding,” Jim Fiscus wanted to tell his dreamed-up tale of a wood carver who crafts life-size dolls of the same woman over and over again, each time meticulously creating a new [...]
Even before the movie opened, bloggers at xmenfilms.net were buzzing about Michael Muller’s portrait of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine cast. Here’s a quick Q&A with Muller about the shoot and why Hugh Jackman—who jump-started the publicity machine when he personally emailed Muller’s photo to the movie website Ain’t It Cool News—is a rare breed of [...]
Jorg Badura recently traveled to the Florida Keys to shoot an editorial feature on Infiniti’s G37S for Adeyaka magazine, which is distributed in Europe. It was two days of brilliant sunshine, gleaming steel, and…helicopter chases. Knowing the client wanted dynamic images of the sporty new convertible, Badura decided to board a helicopter and have a [...]
They’re beautiful and ambitious, but do the catwalking contestants on Make Me a Supermodel know how to have fun? Viewers of Episode 2 of the hit reality series were able to judge for themselves as the aspiring supermodels paired up to pose for Roxanne Lowit, who patiently advised her subjects on how to look like [...]
In the video “On Cloud Nine,” a leggy model in a fuchsia dress emerges into a cloud-filled white room from a door so small that she has to stoop to get out of it. She collects the clouds and carries them out through the mysteriously diminutive portal. There’s no dialogue, and her movements appear to [...]
