TALLULAH MORTON – MARILYN MGMT
2 septembre 2010
Brand new Chromeo images for Nightlife September issue
1 septembre 2010During our very busy Osheaga week-end, we also had a cover and a short editorial to shoot for Nightlife.ca early on the sunday morning with now worldwide hailed local duo Chromeo. All in all, we roughly had an hour and an half with the boys… Simply put, we needed to be extremely precise and efficient. And fortunately enough, those 2 guys were very helping with their charismatic presence and ease in front of the lens.
So, since we had the opportunity, this time around we photographed Dave One and P-Thug with a twist. As a matter of fact, we went for continuous lighting instead of our regular flashes allowing us, for many reasons not explained here, to better control ambient lighting and to play with colors in the entire image right on the spot (for instance, on the 1st image: orangish in the foreground, blueish on the right handside and cyan in the background).
In a small time-window, we ended up with 4 different and very satisfying set ups at Indy Auto (whose owner Nick is such a sweet character by the way) with a really nice feel and textures now featured in the September issue of Nightlife.ca.
foto: SPG LePigeon
assisted by: Olivier Guillemette and Morgane Renou
chief lighting technician: Michel Robitaille
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
1 septembre 2010I don’t think Annie Leibovitz really needs an introduction but just so you know, she was the chief photographer for the Rolling Stone magazine in the 70′s. During that time she shot 142 covers including the one of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. That particular photograph was the last one of Lennon, he was killed five hours later. In 1983 she started working for Vanity Fair and in 1998 for Vogue. She is also the woman behind a lot of major ad campaigns working for clients like the Gap, Louis Vuitton, Disney Land, Got Milk, American Express and so on. She had numerous shows in important art institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum and she released seven officials books. She also had an love affair with Susan Sontag, the writer of the famous On Photography essay. Last year Annie Leibovitz received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the notorious Infinity Awards.
Here is a great documentary about her life and works. It’s really funny to have insights from the celebrities and it’s very interesting to have the chance to see what it looks like behind the scenes of her photo shoots.
TIM BARBER
31 août 2010Remember yesterday’s post. Yeah, the one just underneath that one. If you don’t then just take a look.
Tim Barber, yes, the same one mentioned below is a great photographer and I really dig his work.
TINY VICES
30 août 2010This week blog feature is tinyvices, a blog founded in 2005 by photographer and former Vice magazine photo editor Tim Barber.
You can find a ton of amazing photographs by a ton of amazing photographers. You are welcome to subscribe your pictures if you think that your skills are rad enough to be publish on the site. His links section is huge and there is even an iphone app. He also collaborated with Aperture books releasing five monographs so far by artists Kenneth Capello, Allan Macintyre, Jason Nocito, Robin Schwartz and Jamie Warren.
Portrait of the curator Tim Barber.
Grace Small – IMG
26 août 2010
TIERNEY GEARON
25 août 2010These images are highly personal, keyed to Gearon’s own life, reflecting its apparently equal helpings of chaos and stability. But they also remain strangely anonymous and distant. They speak of particulars but also tap into ubiquitous questions about life. Freezing these moments seemingly through children’s eyes, Gearon presents us with the children’s complex mixture of innocence and insouciance, which comes from experiences as yet unmediated by grown-up sensibilities. Any questions we have as we look into these images are bounced back at us as the young counterparts concentrate on life lived.
JH Engstrom
24 août 2010Who’s better than the great Robert Frank to describe someone’s series
Well, not me.
SHELTER
JH Engströms photographs are
a remarkable document about
women of our time.
These faces – they ask
no questions.
Look at the rooms – think
about possessions.
These photographs tell me
how sad it is. It is mostly
about the courage to survive.
A glimmer of hope despite of
it. I can see it because the
photographer cares.
ROBERT FRANK
Tout Pour Plaire
23 août 2010
BOOOOOOOM !
23 août 2010So here is the second installment of our blog sharing weekly post.
This week we propose you a website that many of you probably already know about. I believe though that it is still worth presenting BOOOOOOOM for many reasons. First, the blog is run by Vancouver artist Jeff Hamada and covers many subjects like art, design, film, music and photo, obviously. Secondly his tastes are great and you can spend hours discovering artists that will blow your mind.
Go have a look
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