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HighFlyers

tait — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:07:03 +0000

Mr Ryan McGinley has shot a photo feature for the NY times Magazine of 2010 Winter Olympians and a pitch perfect short film called The Lightness of Being an Olympian, which you shouldn’t miss. I like the inclusion of Rodarte, but the stills are something of an odd mix. On the one hand you have McGinley’s very colorful and more esoteric imagery coupled with a few fairly straightforward fashion portraits. It’s beautifully shot and contrary to what you might expect, there is no nudity. Either way, I can’t wait until tomorrow to see it in print!

NY Photo Festival

tait — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:44:01 +0000

The New York Photo Festival closed Sunday, surviving with little surprise and a few gems tucked away amongst quite a lot of work that I must say I just didn’t care that much for. It is only the second year of the festival and so it is not surprising that there were a few kinks to be worked out. Everyone, it seems, is talking about Tim Hetherington’s “sleeping soldiers” series and video project. Read about the buzz here and here. The images are politically powerful, however, it was the video installation that was ultimately more moving than the stills themselves.

Other standouts in my opinion were, without a doubt, the abstract color images of Enrst Haas, which reminded me of what I love about William Eggleston. Additionally, there was some beautiful if albeit less socially or politically relevant images by Rene and Radka – who prove once again that you can shoot fashion and still be recognized as artists. In the satellite show of the Tobacco warehouse I found some lovely images by Naho Kubota from her series Minimum Structure.

I’ve left out the images that go along with this post, after attending the panel on the relevance of blogging in the photographic community where the question was posed about the potential copyright issues associated with blogging about others’ work. The panel (consisting of: Jorg Colberg, Cara Philips, Laurel Ptak, Andrew Hetherington and Brain Ulrich) are all preeminent bloggers in the photographic community and promptly dismissed the issue when it was raised. However, I believe it is more complicated than they would admit on stage and am taking the time to think about it thoroughly before moving forward. More on this later…

Avedon at ICP

tait — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:00:33 +0000

Everyone is all excited about the New York Photo Festival occurring this weekend in DUMBO and so am I. I’ll be down there tomorrow to walk through the exhibits and sit in on a panel discussion about the relevance of blogging in the photographic community. However, it is also worth noting that opening tomorrow (may 15th) on the other side of town at the International Center of Photography is a restrospective of Richard Avedon’s fashion photographs. The NY times has a cool preview of the show here.

Mark Leibowitz backstage at Galliano

tait — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:12:55 +0000

PDN’s photo of the day features seven images of Mark Leibowitz’s Backstage series at John Galliano’s Fall 08 and Spring 09 shows in Paris. When asked how the images were made, Leibowitz wouldn’t discuss it with PDN, but its pretty obvious i think. Not to suggest that making the images would be easy, but there are definitely double exposures, slow exposures, strobes firing and probably one or two more tricks going on here. Regardless, the technical stuff is insignificant next to the aesthetics. I think they are beautiful in an alternate reality/psychedelic kind of way and here are my favorites.

Metro.Pop

tait — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:55:22 +0000

Issue #33 of Metro.Pop magazine is on news-stands now! Check my exclusive for Reebok on the second page spread as its a first on many fronts. First shoot for Reebok, first “product” shoot and first time shooting with animals. Patience is without question the single greatest virtue when dealing with rodents…

New Work

tait — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:31:20 +0000

In addition to all the new images from my recent trip through Iceland, I also had a busy holiday season. Only a few days after returning, I shot a new campaign for DBLA clothing and soon to be on newstands is an exclusive ad for Reebok, to appear exclusively in the January issue of Metro.Pop magazine. The shoe is a celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year, the year of the rat. Look for it in the inside cover!