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

Quicktake: Rodarte | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Quicktake: Rodarte | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

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Long Live The McQueen!

Bruce Weber's Chop Suey on Sundance Channel this month

One of the few photographer attempts at film that is actually interesting to non-Bruce Weber fanatics too... full of life and people with stories playfully interjected with kind visual vignettes of youths and dogs at play. I had the opportunity of interviewing with Nan and Bruce once and Little Bear offices felt like being inside someone's home... lunch was being prepared and the savory scents floated in the wood and leather outfitted rooms -it was like a family. In Chop Suey, it's such a privilege to be invited to behind the scenes of such a master of color as well as black and white photography. Looking at his photographs I've always wanted to smile, close my eyes and dive right in. Up and comer DP's such as Shane Sigler and Theo Stanley have emerged from Little Bear. What happenstance that the fashion documentary, Ralph Rucci: A Designer and His House was broadcast prior to Chop Suey tonight... Theo Stanley was DP on Rucci. WASW

Chop Suey playing this month on Sundance Channel. An award winner at the Berlin Film Festival, 2001. Lance Acord was cinematographer who went on to DP Lost in Translation, Adaptation, Marie Antoinette and Where The Wild Things Are... there must be a Weber-Coppola-Jonze cool story with that.

NY Fashion Week Fall 2010 at Bryant Park

They may close NYC schools the day prior to forecasted snowstorms, but it didn't appear like anyone took a snow day to stand in line for the Photo/Video and Press Check-in for Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week Fall 2010 -luckily I have friends who saved me a spot near the front.

Alexis Bittar's Spring 2010 Ad Campaign

Alexis Bittar's latest ad campaign for Spring 2010 jewelry collection reflects the glamour of famed Blackglama fur campaigns by Richard Avedon (until 1978) and then Bill King. Joan Collins looking amazing as her classic image of "Alexis Carrington" of the 80's drama Dynasty was photographed by up and coming photographer, Anthony Maule (repped by Julian Watson Agency in the UK).

Jenny Gage + Tom Betterton Book Signing at Clic Gallery (NYC)

Whether for a profound and graceful Valentine's gift or contribution to your photography book collection, Jenny Gage + Tom Betteron, one of the most successful photography shooting duos, are signing their new book on female nudes at the beautiful Clic Gallery in Nolita this Wednesday, 02/09/10 from 6-8 PM.

Clic Gallery 255 Centre Street (Broome/Grand)

...then suggest to stroll about 1.5 block NW and have a cocktail at the new Crosby Street Hotel and glean over your newest addition.

Gage + Betteron are repped by Shawn Brydges and Steven MacKinney, a fabulous duo themself -formerly of departed Katy Barker Agency, is now uniquely a boutique wing within one of the top photography and talent agencies: Art Department.

Luv Vol.II Dream Issue Launch Party

Clic Gallery

255 Centre Street, New York

6-9 PM

www.luvforeveryone.com