LATE PASS: Last week, RESPECT. contributor Kenneth Cappello threw up some images on his blog, including this one of the Clipse. The story behind this photoshoot includes angry rednecks, a rainstorm and an unimpressed Pusha T. Unfortunately, we couldn’t fit it all in the magazine. But keep checking back. We’ll be posting an extended version [...]
The work of RESPECT. contributors Janette Beckman and Danny Clinch (along with a gang of other artists) will be part of Eyes and Hearts for Haiti, a silent auction of visual art taking place this Friday, March 12th at Aperture Studios Miami. All proceeds will be directed to Friends of the Orphans.
(vi@ Brian Smith)
RESPECT. contributor Chris Buck does great, thoughtful interviews. (You can get an ample supply of his insight by going to his site and clicking the little iron icon.) Chris’ work is quirky, just a hair shy of silly, dancing between the mundane and transcendent. Over at Heather Morton he talks about his approach to Diesel’s “Be [...]
RESPECT. contributor Barron Claiborne, who took one of the most enduring—and, arguably, most iconic—pics of the King of New York, just a few days before he died, made this gun mosiac of the Notorious B.I.G. shortly after learning about the rapper’s death. You can read more about Barron’s experience with B.I.G. here.
This Englishman doesn’t take pictures. He tries to catch lightning in a bottle and then take a flick of that. With his second book, he’s coming pretty close to pulling it off.
Today Josh Cheuse’s ‘80s snapshots are iconic, classic and intimate markers of the birth of a nation. Not that he saw it coming.
Long before Jay-Z was trading text messages with Barack Obama, Clay Patrick McBride had the idea to put Hova in the Oval Office.
You know that face you make in the mirror that you think is so sexy? It is. But this Grammy-nominated photographer and director wants you to know there’s a sexier one.
Sometimes you need images that meet the eye and go beyond it into realms of ritual and dream and subconscious meaning. Sometimes you need Barron Claiborne.
He’s gone from film to digital, from Britain to Brooklyn. What hasn’t changed is his ability to make a moment worth all that it’s worth.
