I have alluded to this assignment in two prior posts, The End of the Affair and A Peek Behind the Curtain. In early September I had the opportunity to photograph George Bisacca, Paintings Conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
George is one of an extremely small group of specialists worldwide who [...]
When you think of a museum it is often of a sprawling building with large open spaces and the public moving through them. As much as that is the case, the opposite is true as well. Most museums can only exhibit a fraction of their collections and it takes as a lot of space, hidden [...]
Tom Waits had one of the best albums of 2011, Bad as Me. Now he has re-teamed with director/illustrator/photographer Matt Mahurin to bring his war song, Hell Broke Luce, to the small screen.
Mahurin and Waits worked together in 2008 for a video of Hold On.
A great movie by Benh Zeitlin, who has since gone on to make Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Glory At Sea! from Court 13 on Vimeo.
If you spend too much time on photography and cinematography blogs, if you read the latest in camera reviews and pixel peep, this will [...]
In a world of democratized media production what is king, where does value lie, and what becomes of quality?
Tony Bennett is everywhere these days with an 85th birthday celebration and a best selling album of duets. I photographed his wife Susan this past summer for a profile on her and on their foundation, Exploring the Arts. ETA created the $70 million Sinatra School for the Arts in [...]
This past weekend I was on the Bard Campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and I got a chance to see the Frank Gehry designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Having spent almost a week photographing Gehry’s Lewis Library at Princeton it was invigorating to explore the Fisher Center. Where Lewis Library [...]
On assignment yesterday in New York City, a twelve-hour day, but a break in the action afforded a balcony view of the Met from Avery Fisher’s balcony:
The plazas in Lincoln Center have been renovated and this was my first chance to get a glimpse of them.
The Barclays Grove is very nicely done. It [...]
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