Jonathan and Danielle Leder of Jacques Magazine-

the NYT story does not mention two influences I think are important- one being Peter Gowland- we didn’t talk about this but you can’t think about pinup photography and not include his name-a complete original, he invented his own cameras even, and another “original” is Italian designer, artist, racecar driver and photographer Carlo Mollino, who made thousands of polaroids of nude and erotic figures, there is a book if you can find it-sure to be expensive, Jonathan had it also.

Fanny Pereire is the art consultant on the new “Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps” from Oliver Stone. I photographed her at Sonnabend Gallery recently with a piece by Clifford Ross entitled, “Hurricane LI”- (not Long Island, roman numerals 60), for NYT.

*Update- my mom emails me that LI is 51 not 60, which would be LX. Nice to know your mom’s got your back…*

Went to “bat” for Todd Selby…

Jumped around the Plaza Hotel with Betsey Johnson,

Found out “What Girls Want”

and spent some time up in the clouds with Nadia and Myriah (right).

more to follow.

WhiteHouse Custom color is doing the printing, short runs of 25, 50, 100, etc. Makes it real easy to send out quick hits. About the only paper I like from them is their Art Recycled.

Had the good fortune to shoot for Time 100 recently- a really wonderful guy Matt Berg, who has developed a text messaging system to track children’s health that is being used in Africa-ChildCount+.

Got an email back from him saying he was really happy with the picture and felt it reflected who he is, which is interesting- you spend a couple hours with someone and try to put that into a picture. From experience I know that the way I see someone in their picture is often very different from how they see themselves. Nice when the two dovetail.

Another view;

In case you are not on the list.

Old School…

During the ‘Blizzard of 2010 I had the pleasure of photographing Beijing-born American artist Yun-Fei Ji for the weekend arts section of NYT.

Lots of fun outdoors to be had.

This weekend NYRR put the word out and 10,000 showed up to run for Haiti, over $400,000 raised simply by tying on some running shoes.

Speaking of tying on some running shoes, I did make a certain “commitment” for later this year…a certain day in November.