The Creative Hall of Fame - 2013 Edition

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In what is hopefully becoming a grand tradition, current and new members of the Creative Hall of Fame gathered on January 22, 2013 for the Second Edition of my Official Portrait as once again The One Club held its annual induction ceremony at New York’s Gotham Hall. Featured in the image above are (seated left to right) Cliff Freeman, Paula Green, Ed McCabe, and new inductee W+K's Jim Riswold. Standing LtoR are W+K's David Kennedy and Dan Wieden; this year inductee into the Educator Hall of Fame Richard Wilde; George Lois, new inductee Steve "1984" Hayden; 2012 inductee Joe Pytka; and Ralph Ammirati and with former partner in one of the industry's great '80's shops & new inductee Martin ("The Ultimate Driving Machine") Puris. It was an honor to be in the room with these Icons of Advertising, let alone photograph them.

The Ultimate Art Director - Ralph Ammirati

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Back in the day, the time when I had my music company, I was married to the ground-breaking ace tv commercial producer, Vera Samama. She had gotten her start at Ally/Gargano and had worked with many of the top shops and agency creatives. Consistently, she praised one standout individual. He was the most intelligent, most talented and certainly the classiest of all those she admired. His name: Ralph Ammirati. I was lucky enough to work with him once on a BMW commercial and everything she said was true.


Having the opportunity to photograph him for The One Club this year was a true honor. And it's all still true. He still even drives very hot cars! To find out more -- including which hot cars -- check out Yash Egami's interview with Ralph in ONE, The Magazine HERE.






Creative Week 2011

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I’ve been photographing The One Show for eight plus years and therefore have documented and observed its growth into the PREMIERE international advertising awards show. It has also transformed itself now into FIVE days of excitement as the crown jewel of Creative Week in New York City. It’s hectic, demanding, crazy but fun and exhilarating with celebrities, stars of advertising and absolutely killer work.

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Great motivation for keeping the pencils sharp . . . on both ends.

The One Club Hall of Fame

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The One Club held their annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony at New York’s Gotham Hall and quite the induction it was. The late Steve Jobs was the first client ever to honored for his contributions to advertising and Lee Clow accepted on his behalf with some great stories as well as probably that rare chance to experience the great “The Crazy Ones” ad with Job himself doing the voice over. Joe Pytkta, he (in)famous director noted for his work on Perrier, Nike (think Michael Jordan), with the Beatles and too many other incredible commercials to mention, was inducted; as well as legendary copywriter Paula Green (Avis: We Try Harder). Additionally, Rob Lawton was there as the first ever teacher to be inducted. In keep with tradition, many previous inductees, the greats of advertising were there.

It made for a VERY memorable -- if somewhat pressured -- formal portrait session.

Featured in the image above are (left to right seated) Ed McCabe, Paula Green, Ralph Ammirati and Amil Gargano; (left to right standing) Joe Pytka, George Lois, David Kennedy and Mike Hughes.

Tabletop - The One Club Annuals

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Long time Event Photography client The One Club’s Yash Igami telephoned late in 2010 with a question: did I do tabletop photography? For 2011 they would be adding an online store to their new site to advance the sale of their Annuals and special project publications.

YES! was my response.

So began the process of arriving at a style that would cover all 25 current items and fit them within the designs and requirements of the online store site design. The culmination was the Holidays “Teaser” for the December 2011 Annual Set addition to the store.

Check out the results at The One Club Store,
and, hey, maybe buy something while you’re there.

One Original Mad Man: George Lois

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George Lois --

Original Mad Man
Art Director,
Designer,
Raconteur,
Member of the
One Club Hall of Fame --


He designed some of most (in)famous magazine covers ever for
ESQUIRE Magazine.
He's the author of a great new book
"DAMNED GOOD ADVICE" which you can hear him discuss on NPR


AND: He’s now employing my portrait of him as his promo shot for press & speaking engagements.

It's a privilege to know him and I am terrifically honored.