PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS
PORTRAITS OF CELEBRITIES, ATHLETES AND EXECUTIVES BY MIAMI CELEBRITY PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER BRIAN SMITH
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…
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Took advantage of an off-day in LA to check out the Walter Iooss – Neil Leifer Exhibit at the stunning Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City. Great space and an even better exhibit with prints of many of their most memorable images paired with fantastic multimedia shows interlacing interviews of each between their greatest hits. Simply Fab!
Neil Leifer's classic overhead photograph of a Mohammed Ali knockout
Walter Iooss' Portraits of Athletes
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A Big Shout Out to Howie Shneyer of Aperture Studios Miami for putting together Eyes and Hearts for Haiti – a silent auction to raise money for Haitian Earthquake relief! All proceeds of the auction will donated to: friendsoftheorphans.org
Come out Friday March 12, 2010 to bid on great prints from: Greg Gorman, Bill Pierce, David Carol, Alan Kaplan, Gaetano Mansi, Jamie Hankin, Dana Tynan, Andrew Tyrek, William Coupon, Brad Trent, Brian Smith, PF Bentley, Barry Kulick, Antoine Verglas, Andre Plessel, Markus Klinko, Douglas Kirkland, Elliott Landy, Jose Gaytan, Ira Block, Dirk Franke, Joe Szkodzinski, Henry Diltz, Paul Morris, Troy Word, Jim Britt, Darryl Strawser, Greg Watermann, George Holz, Joe Gato, John Huba, Al Satterwhite, Laura Tillinghast, Ken Regan, Richard Patterson, James Kamp, Neal Preston, Richard Corman, Louie Psihoyos, Jodie Sinclair, April Dolkar, Jeff Licata, John Eder, Charles Trainor, Tom Bolinger, Roy Gumpel, Bill Frakes, Cheryl Maeder, Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, Gus Butera, Dania Graibe, Mark Chin, Howie Shneyer, Martin Rogers, Danny Clinch, Ross Whitaker, David Burnett, Arthur Elgort, Jim Marshall, David Senatra, Michael Dakota, Peggy Sirota, Steve Sanacore, Bob Gothard, Jeffrey Salter, Janette Beckman, Deborah Feingold, Arthur Grace, Steven White, Blasius Erlinger, Robert Holland, Nancy Nolan, Jules Allen, John C. Engelhardt, Jaime Kahn, Jesse Frohman, Anne Day, Samantha Scott, Patrick Farrell, Robert Erdmann, Carl Juste, James McEntee, Luca Babini, Dean Isidro, Wayne Maser
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I’ve donated a print for tonight’s support the One Case silent auction for Breast Cancer helping one freelancer at a time. The proceeds will be donated to a selected freelancer in need of medical funding. There will be an extended online auction on artnet.com for one week after the silent auction to post any unsold prints.
The unfortunate financial bracket that many freelancers fall into leaves them to fend for themselves with medical bills. One Case hopes to make a difference one person at a time…
Stop by if you can, the auction hosted by Resource Magazine is at Milk Studios:
7-11pm Thursday January 7th 2010
Milk Gallery, 450 W.15th St. NYC
Here is the link to the online catalog so you can have a sneak peek at some the amazing images that have been donated for a great cause.
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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
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Editorial Photographers is pleased to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual EP Education Grants student photo competition:
Leah Tepper-Byrne – ICP
Theresa Juarez – Academy of Art University, SF
ValJean Anderson – Academy of Art University, SF
Eliot Crowley – Academy of Art University, SF
Ross Feighery – Columbia College, Chicago
Samuel James – Tufts University
Joseph Escamilla – Pasadena Art Center College of Design
Each winner will receive a $1000 cash prize, ThinkTank Urban Disguise 30 camera bag, Blinkbid Software, one year Livebooks:Edu subscription, one year PhotoShelter standard account, and other prizes.
The winners were selected by members of the EP Board of Directors and Special Guest Judges:
Laurie Kratochvil, former Director of Photography at Rolling Stone and InStyle
Rob Haggart, of aphotoeditor.com, former Director of Photography at Men’s Journal and Outside
Ronnie Weil, Director of Photography at Business Week
Robert Mansfield, Art Director at Forbes
EP wishes to congratulate or winners and thank our lovely judges!
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Editorial Photographers [EP] is a non-profit, mutual benefit organization of working and emerging photographers, educators, and students who participate in the field of editorial photography. EP’s mission is to raise awareness of proper business practices among photographers, and to advocate for contracts and terms that allow both creators and users of editorial photography to profit and prosper. To apply for membership in EP, please visit http://www.editorialphoto.com/register
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Maybe it’s time for a new WPA…
The last time America was mired in an economic crisis like the one we face today, the Works Progress Administration was created to put America back to work. The Works Progress Administration brought us The Federal Arts Project (FAP) maintained more than 100 community art centers which produced 2,566 murals, 17,744 sculptures, 108,099 paintings and 240,000 prints from 1936 to 1943 creating a new awareness of and appreciation for American art.
Not only did the WPA put artists and Artisans back to work, it left lasting symbols of civic pride.
During The Creative Coalition’s May 2009 visit to Capitol Hill, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) mentioned the Timberline Lodge was built as part of the WPA and is an enduring source of pride in the community. A WPA mural by Grant Wood graced the wall of the college library of the small town where I grew up.
The Works Progress Administration was also responsible of the Farm Service Administration which resulted in some of the best photographs of the 20th century from the FSA photographers Dorthea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Carl Mydans and Gordon Parks.
"Migrant Mother" by Dorthea Lange/FSA - Nipomo, California 1936
“Foreclosure of the American Dream” Merced, California 2008
The Creative Coalition Executive Director Robin Bronk writes in the foreword of Art & Soul:
“When faced with a collapsing economy, President Franklin Roosevelt tried to put Americans in all lines of work back on the job. Instead of singling out artists as somehow frivolous and unimportant to our nation’s economy, he instituted a host of programs designed to put federal funds into the arts, employing America’s creative talent and leaving a cultural legacy that endures still today.
“The highpoint of this commitment was the Works Progress Administration’s Federal One program, which put thousands of Americans to work in the arts. The government program was a lifeline for Jackson Pollock, Burt Lancaster, Sidney Lumet, Ralph Ellison, Studs Terkel, John Cheever, Saul Bellow, and thousands of other artists across the country.
“These programs created much-needed jobs in the immediate term, but they did much more. They fostered great talents that otherwise may have been lost. The work of the many great artists supported by the government in the 1930s still benefits us today. Their contributions to our culture endure, and their successful careers resulted in employment for many others in the years that followed.
“We cannot forget this lesson of our not-so-distant history. Faced with an economic downturn of staggering proportions, some attack any help for the arts as waste, ignoring the millions of Americans who earn their livings and support their families through their artistic endeavors and arts-related enterprises.”
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In a competition judged by one of my favorite photographers of all time, legendary Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt, my photograph of Swimmers at Century Village has been chosen out of nearly 35,000 entries from photographers in 112 countries as one of the 150 photographs that will appear in the book Fresh M.I.L.K.: Families, Friendship, Lovers & Laughter. Inspired by the 1950’s landmark photographic exhibition, Family of Man curated by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art in 1950. Fresh M.I.L.K.: Families, Friendship, Lovers & Laughter will be available November 2009
I took the photo on assignment for Maxim magazine to photograph Florida Voters during the 2000 Presidential recount and elderly voters in Palm Beach county were a big part of the story so I headed to the Century Village retirement community. The minute I saw these two women, I figured it was the perfect photo since everyone knows Maxim loves to run photos of girls in bathing suits….
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ASMPDC presents
Brian Smith, President of Editorial Photographers
THE ART AND COMMERCE OF EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Despite rumors to the contrary, the death of magazine photography has been greatly exaggerated. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Smith, President of Editorial Photographers, will discuss how to maximize the creative and commercial rewards while avoiding bad contracts, stagnant rates and rights-gobbling appetites of multinational media corporations. He remains a firm believer that editorial photography can remain financially viable provided photographers retain unencumbered re-licensing and reprint rights to their photos, Smith will reveal what it takes to make a living in editorial and what it takes to get and keep the attention of photo editors and art directors at top magazines and how production value can make your work stand out, citing examples of production involved in small, medium and large editorial shoots.
He will discuss the need to charge properly for the time and expense of digital capture and processing and why photographers and agencies may be to blame for unreasonably low caps that some magazines that some magazines have placed on digital fees. Photographers, when united, have been able to affect positive change to the industry for fair contracts paying higher fees and space usage and how photographers unwilling to turn down bad deals can send it all tumbling down.
Smith’s first magazine photograph appeared in Life Magazine when he was a 20 year-old student at the University of Missouri. Five years later he won the Pulitzer for photographs of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Based in Miami Beach, his work has won awards in World Press Photo, American Photo, Pictures of the Year and Communication Arts Competitions and appears regularly in ESPN the Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Time, Forbes, Business Week and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. His corporate clients include the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Kraft, Nabisco, TNT and NBC. His work can be seen at:briansmith.com
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Victoria Vestal profiles me in a 5-page feature article in the April/May 2007 issue ofAFTERCAPTURE magazine where we talk celebrities, sports, workflow, gear and my career.
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