Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Photographer Bruce Weber takes stock of his life in an idiosyncratic, occasionally maddening mélange of apparently unconnected vignettes. Rating:3.5
ABC News (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Indie film champ Zeitgeist releases movies about gays, women and non-whites.
I want - I got (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Jeremy Laing is in the July 2008 issue of W mag. Here is a teaser scan, but go out and get a copy. I got mine. He is part of the Summer Camp editorial shot by Bruce Weber. The link has a slideshow of some of the images. There [...]
Catwalk Queen (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Here is a great behind-the-scenes look at how Bruce Weber at the gang at W magazine created their recent 'Summer Camp' shoot, for the July '08 issue ...
The Reverse Cowgirl (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
The July issue of W features a sopping wet sorta-furry, half-naked Daria & half-naked Kate, and gratuitous amounts of gratuitous nudity, all shot by Bruce Weber for a layout that's ostensibly about fashion designers.
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Just like your bunk, right? Kate Moss , Daria Werbowy , and Lara Stone are on the cover of W 's July "summer camp" issue. The magazine sent these gals off to Miami with photographer Bruce Weber and designers like Alexander Wang , Georgina Chapman of Marchesa , the Rodarte girls, and Christophe Decarnin of Balmain . Their time together at, uh, Camp W produced an awesome, big, racy, and, yes, campy...
Catwalk Queen (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
The results of that recent Bruce Weber photo-shoot featuring Kate Moss has surfaced as the cover of W magazine's July '08 issue...
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Eliot Asinof, ‘Eight Men Out’ Author, Is Dead at 88 (BRUCE WEBER, 6/11/08, NY Times) A writer whose shrewdness and insight trumped his style, which was plainspoken and realistic, Mr. Asinof was productive and versatile. He wrote more than a dozen books, including a novel, “Final Judgment,” that is set on a college campus and concerns a protest to keep President Bush from delivering a commencement...
My Films Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Round two of the battle between Sex And The City and Indiana Jones saw a victory for the females. The fashion-obsessed quartet scored £3.09 million from 469 cinemas, as against £2.67 million from 535 for The Kingdom Of The Crystal...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
This reissued portrait of West Coast jazz trumpeter Chet Baker turns on a heartbreaking contrast between his beautiful youth in the Fifties and his ravaged looks in the late Eighties, when photographer Bruce Weber caught up with him.
This is London (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Bruce Weber's black-and-white tribute to the trumpeter Chet Baker is musically one of the most evocative jazz movies made in recent years.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
"He was bad, he was trouble, and he was beautiful" - just one of several lyrical assessments of Chet Baker to be found in this classic documentary, reissued 20 years after the jazz giant's death. Photographer and film-maker Bruce Weber shoots in mono throughout, lending the piece a stylish, moody feel that's in keeping with the man and his milieu.
My Films Blog (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
If you were asked to name a famous American jazz trumpeter and singer, who would you think of? The chances are you’d go for Louis Armstrong, and that’s great. But how many of you have heard of Chet Baker? Well...
Voice from the Desert (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
From the New York Times, 5.22.2008. This is a follow up to a previous post on this blog of the same subject. This brief obituary of Sister Catherine Mulkerrin reminds me of a quote from another nun, Mother Teresa of Calcutta. In her 1979 Nobel Prize acceptance speech she said, “What matters is not success, but faithfulness.” I [...]
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
Dick Sutcliffe, 90, Dies; Began ‘Davey and Goliath’ (BRUCE WEBER, 5/25/08, NY Times) “Davey and Goliath” was a stop-action animated show about a boy and his dog finding their way in a world of temptation, filmed by Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby, and his wife, Ruth Clokey Goodell, who were pioneers in the technique known as Claymation. But the show was not their idea. In the late 1950s Mr. Sutcliffe,...
