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Michael Grecco Wednesday January 29, 2014
“Urban Landscapes” is a unique art project created by Los Angeles-based photographer Michael Grecco and Schoeler
Editions, the Brazilian publisher of fine-art portfolios. Featured at the recent Photo LA art fair, the limited-edition portfolio consists of 11 selected prints from Grecco’s series
depicting cityscapes at night, all of which come in a Corian box specially designed by Claudia Hagulara. Schoeler publisher
Christian Maldanado calls it the company’s most ambitious and luxurious project to date. (Go here to view a video about the portfolio.)
Grecco has worked on other projects in Brazil recently. Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Tuesday May 21, 2013
Yesterday we featured photographer Blair Bunting’s BTS account of a portrait session with L.A. Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw. Today you can watch L.A.-based photographer Michael Grecco
working on a two-day shoot for Men’s Health magazine. The video follows Grecco as he plans set-ups and explains what he is attempting to do, and you’ll come away with a thorough
understanding of how balances strobe and ambient light. And if you want to learn more about how to do that, Fstoppers has a separate tutorial. Read the full Story >>
Michael Grecco Friday January 31, 2014
“Urban Landscapes” is a unique art project created by Los Angeles-based photographer Michael Grecco and Schoeler
Editions, the Brazilian publisher of fine-art portfolios. Featured at the recent Photo LA art fair, the limited-edition portfolio consists of 11 selected prints from the Grecco’s series
depicting cityscapes at night, all of which come in a Corian box specially designed by Claudia Hagulara. Schoeler publisher
Christian Maldanado calls it the company’s most ambitious and luxurious project to date. (Go here to view a video about the portfolio.)
Grecco, who fell in love with Brazilian music while growing up in New York, has worked on other projects in the country in recent years. Read the full Story >>
HowToArchive.com Friday December 19, 2014
Earlier this year we mentioned that photographer Michael Grecco had launched a website, HowToArchive.com, filled with information on the
principles of storage and tips on how to improve the way you archive your own photo and video files. Grecco has a new tutorial explaining his own tricks for setting up local hard-drive archives using
what he humbly calls “the best file-name system ever.” If you’ve ever had to search for an image that was generically labeled by your camera, you know why this is important. Read the full Story >>
Adorama Thursday March 15, 2012
You might think that photographer Michael Grecco’s advertising and editorial portrait work would be enough to keep him busy. He also lectures at photo events around the country and Tweets
like a madman. Now he’s coming out with an e-book called Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Celebrity and Editorial Photography. Along with technique tips, he tells the
story of his own career, which started in photojournalism. And it’s quite an interesting story. Read the full Story >>
AMAZON Tuesday February 2, 2021
In the late 1970s, punk rock music began to evolve into the post-punk and new wave movements that dominated until the early ’90s. During this time, photographer and filmmaker Michael Grecco was in the thick of things, documenting the club scenes in Boston and New York, capturing The Cramps, the Dead Kennedys, the Talking Heads, Human Sexual Response, Elvis Costello, Joan Jett, the Ramones, and other bands during performances and backstage. His work is collected in the book Punk Post Punk New Wave. Read the full Story >>
Michael Grecco Wednesday December 4, 2013
“When my parents started dating, my mother aspired to be a jazz singer; my grandfather owned a jazz record store in Harlem. In my house, there was always music playing, much of it from the
burgeoning Brazilian bossa nova scene of Antônio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, and Astrud Gilberto,” writes LA-based photographer Michael Grecco, explaining his passion for Brazilian
culture. When Brazilian Harper’s Bazaar asked him to photograph six of the most important designers in Brazilian fashion, he was understandably pleased. Read the full Story >>
ADWEEK Tuesday January 19, 2016
Cinemagraphs — still photos in which a portion of the image moves — are catching on with advertisers. A case in point is a new TV spot for Pizza Hut produced by cinemagraph software
company Flixel and directed by photographer Michael Grecco.
Flixel says it is the first cinemagraph TV commercial. The ad shows a couple taking a selfie in Times Square, but while the couple is still, everything else is moving around them. Adweek calls the
commercial “oddly hypnotic.” Read the full Story >>
HowToArchive.com Monday September 15, 2014
You’re good behind the camera, but how are your back-office skills when it comes to storing, archiving, and accessing picture and video files? “For many photographers and videographers the
concept of archiving our images is not a top priority,” notes photographer Michael Grecco, who has launched a new website called How
To Archive that offers tips and tricks he has used to streamline the storage process. Up now are insights on working with digital cold storage, on off-sight servers, vs. cloud storage: “If we
shoot 4K video…the volume of images we capture could then easily outpace our ability to upload large files to the cloud,” he notes. Read the full Story >>
By Wonderful Machine Tuesday May 25, 2021
"Yes, you own the actual copyright to your work when you create it, but you do not have the full protection of the law unless you register it. That one little [online form] from the copyright office
will change your life." This is how longtime director and photographer Michael Grecco sums up the process that ensures your photographs are protected. The first step is, … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Thursday September 1, 2022
Thursday, September 8, 6-8 pm: Lynsey Addario | The Masters Series Awards Ceremony at SVA Chelsea
This fall, School of Visual Arts (SVA) will honor Lynsey Addario, acclaimed war photographer, MacArthur Genius Grant and Pulitzer Prize recipient, with the 32nd annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition. Curated by Maya Benton and Perri Hofmann, the exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective of her fearless, two-decade journey documenting humanitarian issues … Read the full Story >>
By Jeff Wignall Wednesday March 25, 2015
Michael Grecco began his career as a photojournalist but had aspirations to do something more illustrative and conceptual. "I knew I would ultimately like to create images, not just capture them," he
says. He went on to become a successful Los Angeles-based celebrity portrait specialist whose work has appeared in Time, Wired, Vanity Fair and People magazines. More recently, Grecco has transitioned
to motion … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 4, 2017
Special Events January 12-February 12 Month of Photography |
Los Angeles. Panels, presentations, exhibitions, , and more, at various venues. Info Wednesday, January 4 Philip Cheung | The Edge, 6-9 pm. Circuit Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, ON Info Thursday, January 5 Jan Dibbets, 6-8 pm. Peter
Freeman, Inc., 140 Grand Street, NY, NY Info Peter Agren, Ronaldo Agular, Larry Dais, Myra … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday January 12, 2007
A new year in photography starts off with a host of openings in galleries and museums. From the hotly anticipated Sleepwakers, a film by Doug Aitken to be projected on MoMA's facades, to the
intimate scrapbook photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson at ICP, to Misty Keasler's Japanese 'love hotels' at the Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York is the jumping-off point for a 12-state tour of … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Monday April 9, 2007
April has proved to be "the cruelest month" this year, with ice and snow dusting the spring holidays throughout the Northeast and Midwest. But New Yorkers can take shelter at one of the marquee art
fairs. The Photography Show 07, which opens this week at the 7th Regiment Armory. AIPAD's annual invitational will offer everything from contemporary to classic, from platinum to digital
prints, … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 31, 2007
Amid visions of global migration, corporate power trips, portraits, camera-less photographs and the influence of Andy Warhol on image makers today, looking at the land and the ways in which people
have altered it continues to fascinate. In at least 20 exhibitions, an incredible variety of approaches can be seen in the galleries this month, from the huge, digitally constructed panoramics of
Scott McFarland … Read the full Story >>
