Details Magazine – November 2009

I've got photos in 2 stories for the November issue of Details Magazine. One is a shopping & eating story about the lower east side and the 2nd one is my first published food shot! (coincidentally also on lower east side.)

Long Beach Island

I was shooting a beach house in Long Beach Island, New Jersey this morning and here are couple outtakes and detail shots.

The Stone Masters – California Rock Climbers in the Seventies

My friend Alex from Loden Dager gave me this new book this weekend (images from it were on their inspiration board for the SS10 collection). It is an awesome book of images by Dean Fidelman and stories/essays by John Long, published by T. Adler Books. They are the same company that put out great surfing books a few years ago.

It's cool to look at the great stye & looks from California in the seventies being worn for functional purposes (and a bit of fashion) in their natural environments.

"Jim Bridwell had a quiver of silk scarves and he gave me one he thought suited my personality – bold, but unpretentious. With hair cuts far and few between, these scarves kept our long hair tied back and, over time, became part of our style."

- Mike Graham

More photos of Noah

James Nachtwey

I watched the documentary War Photographer about James Nachtwey from 2001 on DVD last night. He has been a photo journalist for over 30 years, shooting in locations around the world like Kosovo, Rwanda and Indonesia to name a few. I first saw his work only a few years ago in the New Yorker but was immediately drawn to the intensity of his photographs.

They mounted a small video camera on his 35mm and you are able to see what he is shooting and the subjects reacting to their situations in real time. You also watch his finger changing the aperture and the shutter speed and you hear the click of his camera firing.

"I also had to learn in taking pictures how to develop a personal vision, how to express my own feelings about it, in order to do that I had to get in touch with my own feelings and it was through photography, through the discipline of the frame I learned about the world, it became the way in which I discovered the world and it also became the way in which I discovered myself."

- James Nachtwey

Snails

I was at a french restaurant last night with a friend who ordered escargot and i was reminded of these images I shot this summer. It's hard to tell the scale of these creatures from the photos but they were almost the size of my fist, the ones he ate were a lot smaller.

League of Nations Map

More editing of old photos. And again another vertical shot. Love the colors on this old map with the soft daylight from the window.

Final Gourmet arrives

Edward Burtynsky

Oil is the name of his show at the new Hasted Hunt Kraeutler gallery. And they are amazing images of industrial wastelands, oil usage and the bi-products of our auto/petroleum based world. I can't wait to get my hands on his new book Edward Burtynsky: Oil published by Steidl.

Drawing Room

Here's a story I illustrated for Contributing Editor.

Noah

I shot Noah yesterday for the first time, it was an amazing day. Here's a preview photo, there will be more great stuff to come...

WaterFire in Providence, RI

Lines & Tracks

Red Spiral Staircase

I was shooting a boutique today and was so intrigued/mesmerized by this brightly painted red staircase.

Portrait Strips in Photoshop

This is a screen grab of just the left edges of several portraits I opened all at once in Photoshop. I like how it's abstracted into a striped color field.

Irving Penn 1917 - 2009

Hans-Peter Feldmann's "Shadow Play" @ 303 Gallery

Gourmet is gone

I'm very sad that my favorite food and even possibly photo magazine has closed. After 67 plus years Condé Nast shuttered the title. Over the past few years it has been one of the most beautiful editorial magazines. And not only about food but the travel images were also amazing. The saddest part is that I will never get to shoot for them. AND I just shot my first food image for a magazine, it was a french onion soup.

After the Storm @ MoMA

Another trip to the Museum of Modern Art and an amazing film about the arts helping prevail over a dire situation. I can't recommend it highly enough. My friend James Lescene (and my actor in my To the Editor  video series) is the producer. Check out the trailer and more about the foundation to help under appreciated young people and the performing arts in New Orleans here.

New Photography @ MoMA

I think it should maybe be called New Photography Techniques. The most gorgeous work is large images of colored ribbons of light on photo paper, but if you don't use a camera can it still called photography?

NY Art Book Fair @ PS1

It was so overwhelming, way too much to take in in such a short amount of time. So many booths, books, people and images. As far as investigating all the material, it was a lot of breadth and not much depth. Among the madness, here's a peaceful shot of the paint peeling in the staircase.

And one shot outside the diner after the fair.