Last night was surreal.
So, besides my hometown winning the game, my friend Noah made an appearance in one of the Superbowl ads (above.) Having loved the art-world remixing director Mark Romanek employed in music videos in the 90s, it’s a sort of honor to be one of the inspiration-pieces he’s now remixed into this ad, and I’m exceedingly happy that he cast Noah in the re-do. See original: Long Portrait of Noah Kalina.
Also also: prior art regarding my Long Portraits
“Most people like having their picture taken. Photos express certain moments, events and people in an instant. What if you could extend that instant? With long portraits, you can. This weekend, we want you to make long portraits of people you know.
Long Portrait: The long portrait is a video made popular on Vimeo by photographer Clayton Cubitt . A long portrait is exactly like it sounds, a portrait that is long. It’s like a photo of someone, but stretched out in video form to show the person’s small expressions, mannerisms and gestures.” (via)
See also: Long Portraits
Also also: prior art
Long portrait of Graciella Longoria, on the first anniversary of her father’s death in a car accident. Photographed on my terrace, Brooklyn. June 2009 (HD version)
See previously: ‘Fixed His Eyes Upon Her, as the Saint of His Deepest Devotion’
and ‘Forth From the Folds of a Cloud, and One Star Follow Her Footsteps’
Long Portrait of Melissa Gira Grant, writer, artist, sex-worker advocate. Photographed in my Brooklyn courtyard, May 2009. (HD version)
I introduced my friends Molly Crabapple (who’s work is pictured above) and Ana Finel Honigman recently in Berlin, and this lovely interview was the result. It also marks the first time one of my “Long Portraits” has been used as an illustration, and I think it works perfectly as an example of what you can do online that both relates to and supersedes what you could do in a print magazine (or alternately, what a 5th-gen Kindle might add to the magazine-reading experience).
“ANA FINEL HONIGMAN: Do you see a separation between your fine art and illustration?
Molly Crabapple: Not really. Not so much now that people hire me for my style and they know that my name has a following. But the type of work I do, which is often called “Pop surrealism,” is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art. Even though this year Shepard Fairey, who I have shown with in gallery shows, is probably the most famous artist in the world. Or at least the creator of the most famous image in the world. If you think about, the Sistine Chapel was Michelangelo doing a client assignment for a very powerful man. He was told what to paint. All the old masters did that. Most fine artists were people doing assignments for clients until relatively recently.” (read interview)
Long portrait of Debauchette, sex writer and courtesan, photographed in my studio, Brooklyn, April 2009 (HD)
Long portrait of artist Orly Genger, lying on one of her pieces and wearing one of her pieces. Photographed in her studio, Queens, April 2009. (larger)
See previous: Long Portraits
Long portrait of Joshua Ellis, writer, photographed in the Flamingo Wash, Las Vegas, February 2009.
Long portrait of Ellen Stagg, photographer, at her Brooklyn home, February 2009
Long portrait of Noah Kalina, photographer, at his Brooklyn studio, February 2009
Long Portrait: Fred Harper
Fred Harper, artist, photographed at his easel. Brooklyn, January 2009
Long Portrait: Molly Crabapple
‘Molly Crabapple, artist, photographed at her studio worktable, Brooklyn, January 2009’
Long Portrait: Nina Stotler
Nina Stotler, creator of Von Kottwitz, photographed in her studio wearing one of her designs, Brooklyn, January 2009
Clayton Cubitt: Long Portrait: Lambchop
Photographed wet from the shower, experiencing a sad song.