Daphne Guinness by Erik Madigan Heck

As promised last week, here’s Erik Madigan Heck‘s portrait of Daphne Guinness for the Style Issue of The New Yorker: . . .

Art Streiber on photographing Maria Shriver for Los Angeles mag’s “L.A. Woman” issue (updated)

In its “L.A. Woman” issue, which just came out, Los Angeles magazine explores the many manifestations (womanifestations?) of the female L.A. archetype. “Icons, as a rule, get reduced over time to having a set of predictable characteristics,” the editors explain. “But we knew that the women in Los Angeles are more than the clichés that [...]

Lauren Greenfield’s child beauty queens featured in People

I have my own opinions on the practice of giving little girls fake tans, dolling them up in makeup, and teaching them to believe that beauty (if you can call it that) is a worthy quality to be ranked by. So I was especially gratified to see that a mainstream magazine like People is questioning [...]

Jeff Lipsky shoots Rachel Bilson for cover of Women’s Health

The October issue of Women’s Health, which hits newsstands today, features a cover story on actress Rachel Bilson, who’s starring in a new series called Hart of Dixie. In the show, which premieres this fall on The CW, the onetime O.C. star plays a big-city doctor who loses both her job and her boyfriend and [...]

Kwaku Alston photographs Michelle Obama for Essence’s “Power List” cover story

Who’s got the power? Find out in the October issue of Essence, whose “Power List” celebrates the “28 Most Influential Black Women.” On the cover: a radiant portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama as photographed by Kwaku Alston. . . “Obama is joined by other notable women, including Oprah Winfrey, Valerie Jarrett, Iyanla Vanzant, Jada [...]

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 [...]

New work: Steven Lippman photographs “Europe’s most controversial soccer player” for ESPN The Magazine

In his profile of Mario Balotelli in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, writer Sam Alipour dubs Balotelli “Europe’s most controversial soccer player.”Apparently, Balotelli—who plays for England’s Manchester City soccer team—is a gifted athlete but rather mercurial. In his first season with Man City, Alipour explains, Balotelli “was red-carded twice…and was reprimanded for off-field [...]

Hans Gissinger, edible bugs, and The New Yorker

The current issue of The New Yorker features a story by Dana Goodyear on the subject of eating bugs.”Ounce for ounce,” writes Goodyear, “many have the same amount of protein as beef—fried grasshoppers have three times as much—and are rich in micronutrients like iron and zinc.” Who knew? The piece, titled—what else—”Grub” is illustrated by [...]

Spotlight: Jeff Lipsky

Before he moved to Southern California in 1998 to pursue photography, Jeff Lipsky spent a decade in the mountains of Telluride, Colorado, snowboarding in the winter and working as a fly-fishing guide in the summer. It was his version of an alternative lifestyle, and he loved it. His life now couldn’t be more different: He [...]

German GQ cover features Daniel Craig portrait by Michael Muller

. I don’t speak German, but I do speak Daniel Craig. The ruggedly handsome actor, as photographed by Michael Muller, appears on the cover of the September issue of German GQ… . . Perhaps you also saw Michael’s photo of Daniel, with Harrison Ford, on the cover of Entertainment Weekly last month. Michael photographed the two [...]

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