Euphemist Mailer Part 4: Adam Sandler’s Teenage Bride
My favorite item hidden in the French folds of my Euphemist promo is a thank you letter I received from a teenager smitten with Adam Sandler.
Gary Oldman Homage
Flattery takes its sincerest form when a photo student emailed me his homage to my Gary Oldman portrait.
Euphemist Mailer 3: Andrew Hetherington Tease
Andrew approached me at a PDN Annual party many years ago. I was flattered that this great photographer asked to get his photo taken with me until the next day when I looked at his blog, “What’s The Jackatory?,“ and saw that he’d gotten his picture done with nearly everyone in the room.
Ed Helms Shares His Nuts
Bon Appétit assigned me to shoot Ed Helms, the picture is to accompany a Q & A that focuses on his taste for boiled nuts.
Rap Darwinism
Wired Magazine proposed this as a modest still shoot with Baba Brinkman, then requested video just before the shoot date. A white rapper doing an off-Broadway show about science and evolution is certainly unusual but the portrait solution seemed almost predestined.
Euphemist Mailer Part 2: Bruce Davidson & The Tagger
I loved this photo from our family trip to New York, with the tagging of my name on the mail carrier’s box. Later Magnum published a book of landscape photos and I found a photo from Bruce Davidson’s Subway series that pictured graffiti of the word “Chris.”
Euphemist Mailer Part 1: Chris Buck Is A Euphemist
Over the past month I’ve been rolling out a new direct mailer. It’s likely the most impressive single piece that I’ve ever produced, but it didn’t start out that way.
With A Rebel Yael
I asked intern Yael Young to be a guest blogger this week. She included some background on our recent TVO ad shoot in Toronto.
iPhone Gets Wood
The case for my iPhone is made of bamboo and looks like a camera.
Ponder Like It’s 1999
As the twentieth century was coming to an end Sheila Heti polled a number of friends and colleagues “To learn what artists think about how they work and discover what contemporary artists share.”
Sinatra’s Signature Song?
What is Frank Sinatra’s signature song? “Come Fly With Me”? “I’ve Got The World On A String”? Maybe “New York New York?” No, it’s “Ol’ MacDonald.” Well, at least in our household it is.
Finding Elliott Smith
I thought that the whole session was lost but I came across the four rolls of black-and-white negatives and the clip tests of the color rolls.
Lightning Strikes Twice
Josette Lata is opinionated about a lot of things, and she’s not shy to share. One thing that she has full right have strong views on is photography and photographers. Here is the background on the CononoPhillips and Diesel campaigns that I shot with her.
PDN Photo Of The Day: David Cross
Photo District News made my David Cross portrait their Photo Of The Day. It got picked up and re-blogged a number of times but the comments on the Minus Manhattan page are the best.
Atlantic Standard Time
Bringing in the story’s writer as the model for the photographs adds complications and time, as we balance her needs and preferences with the narrative for this cover of The Atlantic.
Bachmann-Eyezed
There have been many responses to my Newsweek Michele Bachmann cover. My favorite, just for the flat out surreal quality of someone making amazing new work from my photography is the Bachmann-eyezed phenomena.
Sarah Wilmer Is My Friend
Sarah Wilmer is a super talented photographer who I’m pleased to call my friend.
Inspired By George Lois?
When Bloomberg BusinessWeek Photo Editor Karen Frank told me that they wanted to duct tape Richard Branson to their cover I was excited because it had that thinking-outside-the-box approach that my hero George Lois had.
Promotional Video Hoax
The Canadian producer made a couple of video pitches, the first one, called “Uneasy” was impressive. It is largely compiled from an interview at Gino’s in New York, and a session with Wes Craven for Audubon in Los Angeles.
“Here In My Car”
Not only did they want portraits, but they looked to feature a number of Mazda employees, creating the potential to bringing gravitas and authenticity to their concepts.