Fantastic. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Photograph by Piotr Obal. (via Tim Van Damme)
Estelle 3 (2009), acrylic on linen by Peter Stichbury. Catch him at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from January 28–31 at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood.
Stanley Kubrick portrait by Antony Hare. Plenty more on his site, including Hitchcock and Coppola. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
David Simon, creator of television’s The Wire, photographed by Philip Andrews on the New Orleans set of his new HBO series Tremé, for Jesse Pearson’s lengthy interview in Vice magazine. The topic of conversation darts from the screenwriting process and studio involvement, to American healthcare reforms, to the origins of Omar and his fourth-floor jump, to the failure of prohibition, and so on.
Simon spends time discussing how and why a sixth season of The Wire focusing on the immigration issue — it would have played between seasons three and four, leaving the media critique as parting shot — turned out not to be achievable, and why he feels the show’s first season was its weakest. Here’s the introduction:
David Simon is responsible for one of the greatest feats of storytelling of the past century, and that’s the entire five-season run of the television series The Wire. If that sounds like hyperbole to you, then you haven’t watched the show yet. It is the most intricate web of character, motivation, insight, action, repercussion, and emotion that’s ever been on TV, and it rivals the grand novels of the late 19th century, when novels actually, regularly, had scope. More hyperbole, but there you go.
Contains plot spoilers of course, but if you haven’t watched it, do yourself a favour this festive season. (via Wilson Miner)
Troy Stains (via Jarred Bishop):
So it seems my flash meter’s either broken or in the habit of lying to me these days. The bright side is, apparently if you underexpose Kodak E200 a good bit things start to look like a 60s Vogue or Harper’s Bazaar. I’m newly in love with Kodak again as a result of shooting this last roll of E200. Many thanks to Mr. John Kelso for giving me that roll of film and to Mrs. Jarla Aberdavis for posing.
Photograph by Li Hui. (via Paper Tissue)
Photographs by Irene Blázquez. (via Jeff Hamada)
Photography by Kat Burns. (via Light Boner)
Empire celebrates its twentieth anniversary by recreating some favourite movie moments. Portraits by photographers Sarah Dunn and Robert Gallagher. (via Todd Dominey)
