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Sex Advice from Photographers

Sex advice from Photographers on NERVE. I doled out some advice to Will Doig of Nerve. What is there now is only partial advice, you'll have to become a subsrciber to read all of the advice. Hope it helps.

"Change Me" Getty

I've forgotten the mini-cooper that I didn't win from Corbis because Getty has "Change Me." Here's what Getty says on the site:

Change Me is an open conversation that brings people together to share ideas through powerful imagery.

Simply find an image that inspires you and use it to express an idea that has the ability to touch or affect the person viewing it.

If selected, your image/idea may appear as part of a traveling global exhibit, and be published in a book.

For each submission we will donate $10 to ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History - which helps raise awareness about the crisis of extreme poverty and AIDS.

So I figure that with 2004 profits of $107 million that's 10,700,000 submissions that they can afford. So what are you waiting for click HERE. And tell your friends too.

Stephen Crowley hits up "Tableaux Vivant"

Bought the NYT today at Starbucks on 7th & G because of the beautiful poster like image of Bush and Alito by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters on the front page. How could I resist the blurry absence of George and the lost-in-space puckered kiss of Alito. Well was I in for a pleasant surprise on page A18-A19. That's right, a Stephen Crowley spread. This guy's work and the forward thinking of his editors has produced an amazing image. I presume it to be two images again (see earlier post HERE). This is the newspaper version of the triple fold-outs Leibovitz does for Vanity Fair. See HERE & HERE. Frankly Alex, I'll take Stephen Crowley for the NYT for a dollar (in DC) over Vanity Fair any day. Though, I do a a sweet spot or two for it.

Talk about telling looks. Bush looks down. Alito spys on Bush to his right from almost closed eyelids. An empty chair to his left. The Alito family stand in the second panel. Daughter and son both look down. Maybe mesmerized by the positions the unseen photographers must take on the floor to make a picture of their father. Only his wife is seen proudly looking in the direction of the podium. Random photographers in foreground and one hiding behind a plotted plant. Not only is Bush pictured, but we get two others presidents as well. A Portrait of Kennedy is tucked away in the center of the image, arms folded looking down. Clinton's portrait beems above the Alito family. And wouldn't you know it, his painted hand appears to be on Laura Alito's shoulder. This image by Stephen Crowley is almost pure American "Tableaux Vivant" history painting.

Robin Gavhin, I hope you explore this nominee and his family through their fashion sense as you did Robert's earlier, HERE.

Double Paged

Charles Dharapak of the Associated Press gets a gold star for making the front cover of The Washington Post & New York Times on Friday. His picture of Harriet Meiers waving to the press and biting her lip as she delivers her "formal" letter of withdrawl (for nomination to The Supreme Court), to the President, is the perfectly posed timely picture the photodesk has wetdreams about. This guy should get a raise. Check out other front pages of newspapers worldwide HERE.

Madonna sited in DC...

...sorry, the other Madonna. Walking up Connecticut Avenue in DC I passed a long line of newspaper boxes and stopped at the "madonna and child" on Friday's cover of the NYT. The colors, the focus are beautiful. The reference to the "madonna and child" is helped by the gray cloth wrapped around the mother's head and the impoverished surronding in the image caused by the earthquake on the Pakistan/Indian border. Not wanting to put any more of a "western eye" on a woman and child that are unknown to me, I'll stop.

The photodesk at the NYT has once again proved they have a great eye. Photographer Gurinder Osan for the Associated Press deserves much of the credit. See more of Osan's work HERE and HERE.

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Veras Images

Check out Veras Images. Jessica Dimmock has a home there.

Bush Clinton Happy Together

Photographer, Doug Mills was allowed to capture our past two Presidents frolicking (almost skipping) out of The Oval Office together. Click HERE.

Abercrombie-Vogue

Some things I never got to post this summer:

• The Polaroid Book, from Tashen
• "Who is Platon?"
• My fantastical idea to collect every magazine cover by Herb Ritts.
• Pitt & Jolie's romp through W
• David Hilliard
• Being underemployed
• American & Other Works, by Andres Serrano
• Why I bought the 800 paged Vogue
• My desire to buy Abercrombie & Fitch catalogs from ebay. I bought a red hoody instead.
• Leitmotif: Photos of celebrities with guns; Madonna and here, Morrissey, Nancy Sinatra, Brad Pitt, Mapplethorpe

Focus on AIDS 11

Focus on AIDS 11, an auction of fine art photography, is happening Friday, November 11th. I've never heard of the organization before, but there is a preview party November 4th at Farmani Gallery in LA. Go HERE for more info. The following is from the events page on The Farmani Gallery site, "The Focus On AIDS Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization whose purpose is to provide financial aid to photographers living with HIV or AIDS. Since 1987, the Foundation has produced a photography auction/benefit, the largest of its kind in the United States, to raise money for AIDS treatment, research, education and care. Now entering its tenth event, the Focus on AIDS Foundation remains truly dedicated to continue its quest until there is a cure."

Here's a link to download a PDF of the Focus on AIDS 10 items for auction, click HERE.

Bush Note

Hind sight is better.... Even Bush now gives advance warning before he leaks. I hope Condi had an evacuated route to the U.N. men's room. Read more HERE.