“A fashion picture is a portrait, just as a portrait is a fashion picture.” - Irving Penn
June 27, 2007
When people ask what it is I do, I tell them that a large part of being an agent is selling and marketing the photographers to potential clients. At an advertising agency one of the most important people for a photo agent to deal with is the art buyer. Some people I’ve talked […]
From agency 72andSunny, from photographer Ryan McGinley. Fresh off his recent exhibition featuring fans at Morrissey concerts, this ad makes sense. It almost makes me want to consider buying a Zune.
From the New York Times
June 26, 2007
Bernd Becher, 75, Photographer of German Industrial Landscape, Dies
By PHILIP GEFTER
Bernd Becher, known with his wife, Hilla, for photographing relics of industry in the changing urban landscapes of late-20th-century Europe and the United States, died on Friday in Rostock, Germany. He was 75.
He died after heart surgery, said the […]
June 22, 2007
I had the good fortune to be invited to the ICP Click! Summer Party this past week. The event is ICP’s summer fundraiser to benefit potential students of ICP.
In addition to tickets and table purchases the event held both a silent auction with works by photographers such as Jessica Dimmock and a live auction […]
June 20, 2007
From Style.com…in honour of Irving Penn’s upcoming 90th birthday, a limited edition (90, of course) book has been created by the Aplanat Galerie für Fotografie in Hamburg, with 42 photographs shot in the Penn style.
How AMAZING is that?
The agency I work for was one of the exhibitors at the second LeBook Connections event in New York last week, which is basically a ‘tradeshow’ for agencies (for the purpose of this event, largely focused on photography and illustration), showing portfolios to potential clients (photo editors, art buyers, art directors and so forth). […]
June 19, 2007
Some smaller group shows this Friday that are worth a look -
At the Jen Bekman gallery:
A NEW AMERICAN PORTRAIT
ON VIEW: JUNE 22- AUGUST 3, 2007
OPENING: JUNE 22, 6-9pm
Press: NEW YORK, NY - Jen Bekman is pleased to present A New American Portrait, a group exhibition of photographs featuring artists at the vanguard of contemporary portraiture […]
June 17, 2007
One of the resolutions I gave myself a few months ago was to buy a new photography book each month, to try and build my small and rather sad collection.
This month, I purchased “Life and Work. Bernd and Hilla Becher” by Susanna Lange. I’ve been an admirer of their work since coming across it a […]
June 12, 2007
Charlotte Cotton leaving Art + Commerce to be the new Department Head of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (I suppose that’s why Tipofthetongue is down.)
Jessica Stam and Catherine McNeil for Donna Karan, shot by Regan Cameron and Mario Testino respectively.
Demarchelier shoots Gemma Ward for the first issue of Vogue India.
Testino shoots […]
I came up with a slightly better name for the posts each week that will be focused on an ad that I think is noteworthy.
Henry Wolf was a legendary art director that traversed the lines between fashion and commercial, editorial and advertising, and looked damn good doing it all. He succeeded Alexey Brodovitch (perhaps the […]
June 11, 2007
Came across this wonderful piece written by New York Times Shanghai Bureau Chief Howard French, with his own photography that captures the energy of the quickly changing city.
There were some other great bits currently on the New York Times travel section, including a globe spanning list of some can’t miss forthcoming photography exhibitions, and a […]