Celebrity portraits from ART & SOUL will be on exhibit in the lobby of the W Hotel Los Angeles Westwood for the month of November  2011. Featured in the exhibit are portraits of Anne Hathaway, Samuel L Jackson, Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, Alyssa Milano, Kerry Washington, Cheryl Hines, Dana Delany, Tim Daly, Richard Schiff, Dulé Hill, Harry Belafonte, Lynn Whitfield and Chris Botti. Please stop by to check the beautiful prints from Duggal…

Come check out a great exhibition of student photography at the Photo Camp  ‘The Culture of Now’ opening tonight at New York’s Aperture Gallery. Photo Camp was sponsored by Sony and Aperture and supported by Epson and Gotham Imaging.

Opening Reception 6-8pm
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Aperture Gallery
547 W 27th Street – 4th Floor
New York City

My Monday morning in New York started off with the great press clippings we received from our ART & SOUL Exhibit at the Library of Congress last week. Started off with a great interview with Aimee Agresti of  DC Modern Luxury about the Art & Soul project. Thank you Aimee or the kind words and thanks for the Fab red carpet photo of me with Entourage’s ‘Vinnie Chase’ Adrian Grenier.

Nice photo showing off the opulence of the Library of Congress venue in  The Hill

DC Metromix

ABC News.com has a photo of me as Steven Weber and Tim Daly’s new Wings-man

The Epoch Times has a nice shot of new pals Omar Epps and Marlon Wayans

http://dc.guestofaguest.com/events/adrien-grenier-dana-delany-attend-art-soul-premiere/

Politico has another nice shot of me with Adrian Grenier

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Mr. and Mrs. Smith Go to Washington

A beautiful day in Washington at the Library of Congress

Anne Hathaway in the Library of Congress 'Art & Soul' Exhibit

The Creative Coalition will host an exclusive one-night-only sneak preview of my portraits of performing artists from the entertainment industry with an exhibit of the ‘Art & Soul’ project in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress on April 29th. ‘Art & Soul’ is the cornerstone of The Creative Coalition’s arts advocacy campaign to focus national attention on the need to secure federal funding and support for the arts.

Entertainment for the evening’s star-studded event will be The Creative Coalition’s one-night show by the same name, ‘Art & Soul’.  The show, written and produced by multiple Emmy Award-winning producer Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide:  Life on Street) starring Co-Presidents of The Creative Coalition, Tim Daly (Private Practice) and Dana Delany (Desperate Housewives); director Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing); actors Adrian Grenier (Entourage), Omar Epps (House); Marlon Wayans (White Chicks, Scary Movie),  Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm); Steven Weber (Brothers & Sisters); Wendie Malick (Confessions of a Shopaholic, Just Shoot Me);  Richard Schiff (The West Wing) and CCH Pounder (Avatar) among others to be announced.

The portraits of artists including Anne Hathaway, Samuel Jackson, Alyssa Milano, Tony Bennett and Kerry Washington are accompanied by handwritten personal testimonials from each individual, expressing the positive impact art has had on their lives which will appear in a book to be published by Filipacchi Publishing. The exhibition is sponsored by Sony and Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. and it will showcase 20 photographs from the project printed by Duggal Visual Solutions.

“We are proud to enlist the members of The Creative Coalition to bring arts to the top of the American agenda,” said The Creative Coalition Executive Director Robin Bronk. “Art & Soul is The Creative Coalition’s initiative that brings together today’s greatest artistic voices and storytellers to illuminate the importance – to every American — of support for the arts and efficacy of arts in education.”

To all my friends in LA – don’t say I never gave you nothing…

The latest event in the Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA) is Mark Edward Harris and Dean Karr demonstrating
“The Anatomy of a Playboy Centerfold” tomorrow Friday, April 9th in S/W/A/Y Studios in Culver City from 6:30-9:30 pm

You’re welcome…

Got the chance to catch the Private Gallery Opening tonight for legendary jazz photographer Herman Leonard’s Exhibit at Jazz at Lincoln Center. I’ve been looking forward to this show ever since I ran into Herman at Irving Penn’s “The Small Trades” exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Two of my favorite images from the show were Leonard’s photographs of Miles Davis an Frank Sinatra that were among the prints that were damaged when Leonard’s New Orleans home was flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – proving that out of tragedy sometimes comes beauty.

Fortunately for history, none of Leonard’s negatives were lost in the flood as they were safely stored in a different location. Don’t miss this show by a true Legend. Leonard’s work is the finest photography of the Jazz age.

Herman Leonard’s Jazz at Lincoln Center is up through February 14, 2010.
Jazz at Lincoln Center • 33 West 60 Street • New York, NY 10023

If you’re going to be in New York for the PhotoPlus Expo, be sure to catch the Sony Artisans of Imagery Exhibit showcasing personal projects by the Sony Artisans of Imagery alongside a show of the Sony World Photography Awards Global Tour 2009/10 at the Aperture Gallery in New York from October 22 through October 30, 2009.

The show will include five of the latest photographs from my long-term project on Burlesque. I began photographing the Legends of Burlesque in 1992 when I photographed the “Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque” Dixie Evans. Over the years I returned to Exotic World, located just off Route 66 in the California desert, to photograph their annual reunions where Dixie was kind enough to introduce me to many of her friends, allowing me to capture this part of Americana. The images in the show are the most recent additions to the project were taken at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend in Las Vegas.

Come check out the work of my fellow Sony Artisans of Imagery: Matthew Jordan Smith, Andy Katz, Cristina Mittermeier, David McLain and Me Ra Koh. Big thanks to Kayla Lindquist, director of the Sony Artisan’s of Imagery, for putting this great show together for the one year anniversary of the program.

Show Sponsored by SONY and American PHOTO

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York

Hours: Monday–Saturday: 10:00 am–6:00 pm, Sunday: closed

ASMP/SFL along with with FilMiami.org, the Film and Television division of Miami-Dade County, presents Film Meets Art, a special pre-Art Basel opening of fine art photography at a December 1st cocktail reception hosted by Jeff Peel, director of Miami-Dade Office of Film and Entertainment at the Seth Jason Beitler Fine Arts gallery in the Wynwood Arts District.