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I just finished Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children.” She is a compelling storyteller and draws vivid, complex, and believable characters. There is some “what would this look like photographed?” language, but it rarely gets overly descriptive. The writing is mostly in service of the storytelling and you can read the whole thing in a couple [...]

You can read about Julia Bainbridge, whose portrait I shot, over at the Castor & Pollux LOVING blog. We had a great time hanging out in Prospect Park. You can’t tell from the shot but we were surrounded by a healthy amount of bags from the Farmer’s Market.

I’m now reading: Freddie Young & Paul Petzold’s “The Work of the Motion Picture Cameraman.” It inspired me to post an exceprt from Dviga Vertov’s “Man With a Movie Camera.” Make some popcorn because it’s a stone cold classic. I must have watched it 20+ times in school. (This is the popper we use and [...]

Director of Photography extraordinaire Harris Savides shot the new Sofia Coppola movie Somewhere with Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. Here’s the trailer… (and here’s a great interview with him)

My friend DB Burkeman’s book “Stuck Up Piece of Crap” is being published by Rizzoli this September. It’s a history of stickers across counter-cultural movements with nods to skateboarding, punk rock, graffiti, political activism. I had to watch a couple of times but I spotted at least a few skate stickers I had when I [...]

From Jerry Saltz in the comments page of New York Magazine’s site about his favorite paintings in New York City: Dear Readers, Thanks for reading this column about my favorite paintings in New York museums. Do you have an inner art-critic dying to get out and get published? Maybe I can help. I’m expanding this [...]

I came across the 4×5 work of Dannielle Nelson Mourning recently and I am particularly captivated by the open-ended quality of this picture. There is much to read into the filmic nature of the gesture (she is casual, yet determined and I have to wonder what happens next). The look on her face (deep in [...]

An interesting quote from the Corbrasnake in a New York Times article about photographer Todd Selby led me to post the photos below. Instead, he [Todd Selby] took advice from his friend Mark Hunter, who runs thecobrasnake.com, the wildly successful behind-the-scenes party blog. “I pride myself on marketing,” Mr. Hunter said, “and knowing how to [...]