Le Book Connection New York 2010

Le Book is the best industry directory for fashion and commercial photography. I've been using it as a production and art buying tool for over a decade. I even gave them a testimonial to use one year and I was quoted next to Herr Karl Lagerfeld himself. 

Their annual Le Book Connections New York (there's Paris, London and they're adding additional photo meccas such as Berlin) is this month. In their 9th year, they have instituted an additional 2 days for Le Book Productions featuring studios, production companies, hotels, etc. They're pretty strict on Le Book advertisers and clients only allowed in, but it's good to be aware and West Coast, Chicago, etc based clientele will be in town. Last year Jed Root participated which I saw as a sign of the times. However Jed is always 18 months of his peers and is his agency is The Top Ten in the US if not the universe.

Rick Owens, Designer of Edgy Fashion and now Edgy Furniture

(Daybed, 2010. Alabaster 350 cm x 120 cm x 100 cm)

Rick Owens furniture exhibition

Pavane For A Dead Princess

May 8 through June 25, 2010

Salon 94 Gallery

12 East 94th Street, New York, NY 10128

Monday - Friday 11:00 am - 6:00pm

T 646.672.9212

The Paris-based fashion extraordinaire designer is in the Big Apple staying at the Bowery Hotel to launch his 1st NYC launch of his furniture line produced by Ruth Weissenberg and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn.  The show's title borrowed from a Ravel piano solo evokes the added send of high Victorian sub-obssessions with death and sexuality. Alabaster, the stone of the daybed piece, was used widely in funeral pieces from the Egyptians through today for it's semi-lumescence for a hard stone as well as it's white puritanical appearance and softness in finish. The post and lintel arrangement seems to echo the lines of a tomb or tombstone as well as the starkness between the black horiztonals and the moonlike white anchor.

NY Photo Festival 2010

The Portfolio Reviews are going to be really successful. Looks like great judges including yours truly. Last year I brought an aspiring book photographer and ended up subbing for a no-show instructor on the business of commercial photography so I used my syllabus I taught the PDN PhotoPlus Expo as a framework on the spot -which was nerve wracking and interesting. I met a lot of new talent and upandcomers and some indenial crazy photographersnots too.

THE NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2010

TO TAKE PLACE MAY 12—16

CURATED BY VINCE ALETTI, ERIK KESSELS, FRED RITCHIN AND LOU REED

THREE YEARS IN, ORGANIZERS HAVE SUCCEEDED AT CREATING THE U.S.’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL-LEVEL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL

The New York Photo Festival (NYPH) grew out of a simple and stark conundrum: New York City, the world’s capital of photography, had no major photography festival. In fact, there was no American counterpart to the prestigious festivals of Europe. To fill the void, Daniel Power of powerHouse Books and Frank Evers of VII Photo Agency—both based in the creative hotbed of DUMBO, Brooklyn—founded the New York Photo Festival in 2008. After debuting to international acclaim, the festival grew in 2009, in spite of the recession. The increasing success, especially given the circumstances, has affirmed the vital demand for the New York Photo Festival, as well as its staying power. The third annual festival will take place May 12—16, 2010 with expanded programming, more locations across the city, and extended hours.

To help create the festival, Power and Evers select four world-class curators to bring their personal visions of the most provocative and intriguing developments in contemporary photography to the event’s main pavilions. For NYPH’10, they have chosen Vince Aletti, Erik Kessels, Fred Ritchin, and Lou Reed. The curators’ exhibitions will be announced soon.

The New York Photo Festival has become not only an essential destination for photo professionals, amateurs and students from around the world, but also a favorite event of countless art and culture aficionados. The programming includes exhibitions, live performances, slideshows and book signings, in addition to seminars and workshops.

Club Monaco Spring 2010 Ad Campaign by Bert Stern

Club Monaco celebrates legendary Bert Stern shooting their newest ad campaign.

Event: Thu, March 25,7:00 pm - 9:00 pm At the Club Monaco store at 160 Fifth Avenue, NYC

Jeffrey Fashion Cares 2010 Fashion Show + Auction

Jeffrey Fashion Cares 2010

Monday, 03/22/10 on the USS Intrepid (like 2009 Nautica men's Fall 2009 Collection)

Darling T.J. Moore from DNA Models modeling here at 2009's event and again tonight.

Buy a ticket and come out to support a cause to buy some fashion and be around sweet boys -with a tax deduction.

Echo Scarfs Spring 2010 Art by James Wojcik

Photographed by one of the most talented and nicest artists, James Wojcik (Art Dept).

Creative Direction by ByrdBarlage.

Retouching by Brand-Arts.

Ryan McGinley New Exhibit "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"

Ryan McGinley

"Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"

03/18 through 04/17/10

Opening 03/18/10 Thursday at 6:00 PM

Team Gallery, 83 Grand Street (Wooster/Greene) Ground Floor, NYC

Matt K, 2009, gelatin silver print, 18 x 12 inches

Fashion advertising latest "It" photographer has his opening which both art and fashion worlds will undoubtedly attend or crash. Here's some of his work for Levi's and Burberry.

Levi's 2009

Missoni Fall 2009 Collection Campaign