Richard Gere was recently shot by Michael Weschler at the Bedford Post Inn in Bedord, New York. Here is the actual article by Elizabeth Avedon in La Lettre de la Photographie:

It's a great honor to receive this prestigious award. In light of past recipients and the valuable work the Eastman House has done in film preservation, photography and the captured image, I'm very grateful to have been recognized by such a distinguished group.” Richard Gere

On February 16th, Richard Gere was honored by the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, with the George Eastman Award for Distinguished Contribution in the Art of Film, as well as for his International Humanitarian Leadership.

Gere is known as much for his leading rolls in films such as American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Cotton Club, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, Unfaithful, The Hunting Party, and Chicago, as for his ongoing commitment as advocate and supporter of numerous humanitarian causes through his Gere Foundation.

Dr. Anthony Bannon, the Director of George Eastman House, said about Gere's nomination, “We have a special interest in inviting Mr. Gere to receive this honor, as he embodies the spirit of all four of the major awards this institution bestows, including the George Eastman Award, the George Eastman Honors (which is presented to those who excel in both motion picture and photography) and the Eastman Medal of Honor (which is awarded for exemplary public service). We admire Mr. Gere’s own considerable photographic skills. I am also well aware of Mr. Gere’s work on behalf of the people of Tibet and his relationship with H.H. The Dalai Lama, and I have followed both his career and his advocacy for many years. I read with interest his recent statements before Congress, and must tell you they very much echoed a conversation I had with the late Manute Bol when he visited Eastman House to speak about the crisis in Darfur.”

George Eastman House, the world’s oldest museum dedicated to the art, history and science of photography and motion pictures, was the first museum to create a school of film preservation, the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. Established in 1947, their motion picture archive contains the leading silent film collection in the world. With nearly 30,000 titles, the collection includes significant holdings from Metro Goldwyn Mayer, various independent studios, personal film collections of Cecil B. DeMille and Martin Scorsese, the Merchant Ivory Archives, the Technicolor Archives, as well as lesser known documentaries, shorts, newsreels, and avant-garde works. In addition, Eastman House is home to more than 400,000 photographs representing the history of photography, making Eastman House the world’s most consequential non-government, independent collection of still and moving images.

The George Eastman Award was first presented in 1955, and past recipients include Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Cecil B. DeMille, John Ford, Greta Garbo, Harold Lloyd, Louise Brooks, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, Audrey Hepburn, Mary Pickford, Isabella Rossellini, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Gloria Swanson, Jessica Lange, and Graham Nash.

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the World Press Photo of the Year, with an image of a woman holding a wounded relative in her arms.

The image was captured on 15 October 2011, inside a mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, that was used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Aranda used a Nikon D700, with the shutter speed of 0.4 seconds, an ISO of 400, F-stop of f/2.0, and focal length of 35mm.

Aranda's photograph was selected out of 101,254 photos submitted, from a total of 5,247 photographers in 124 countries.

To see the other pictures of the World Press Photo, viewers may visit worldpresphoto.org.

By Morgan Gaynin Inc.

I’m sure that the announcements are still trickling out, but we have heard confirmation from Victo Ngai and Valeria Petrone that two of their pieces (each!) have been accepted into CommArt 2012. Congratulations, Ladies! Let the jobs roll in.

Accepted Works by Valeria Petrone:





Accepted Works by Victo Ngai:

By Morgan Gaynin Inc.

Last Friday night was the opening reception for the Society of Illustrators (the Uncommissioned and Sequential Show), and though it is always a delight to congregate with so many colleagues and friends, we had additional reason to feel jovial - the wonderful Steven Tabbutt was awarded a Silver Medal for his gorgeous image “Infest”. Congratulations, Steven! This is one of the great honors of our industry, and we couldn’t be prouder.

“Infest,” copyright Steven Tabbutt:

By Gerald & Cullen Rapp

Once in a while a project comes around in which we can really leverage our deep talent base. This fall we completed a project for Softmart, an IT consulting firm. They wanted to do a calendar featuring 14 portraits celebrating various inventors in the IT world and they wanted each portrait to have an unique style reflecting the inventor. Enter G&C Rapp. We played match maker and came up with 14 artists who if we do say so ourselves, produced a fantastic calendar and a great show piece for our group.

Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg
Binary Code- Claude Shannon in 1937 proposed that binary arithmatic could be used in electronic devices. His work is fundamental to the basic operation of modern computers.

Illustration by James Steinberg
Calculator- George Stibitz created the first relay-based calculator in 1937 and later that year became the first person to operate a computing device remotely over phone lines.

Illustration by Michael Witte
Computer Memory- Kenneth Olsen created numerous devices that advanced computing and led to the development of magnetic core memory, a precursor to modern RAM (1960s).

Illustration by James O'Brien
Magnetic Storage- Dr. An Wang co-invented the pulse transfer-controlling device in 1949, which makes memory storage possible.

Illustration by Daniel Baxter
LCD- James L. Fergason is best known as the inventor of the LCD, or Liquid Crystal Display. (1970).

Illustration by Rafael Ricoy
Mouse- Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in 1963, a device that facilitates the interaction between humans and computers.

Illustration by Peter Horvath
Fiber Optics- Dr. Peter Schultz is the co-inventor of fiber optics which allows for near-instant global telecommunications (1970).

Illustration by Jan Feindt
Computer Switches- Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover invented a method for automating the phone system at Bell Labs, which eliminated human decision making in favor of a computer (1971).

Illustration by PJ Loughran
Microprocessor- Dr. Marcian "Ted" Hoff is one of the inventors of the microprocessor. He is widely credited as conceiving the idea of a universal processor (1971).

Illustration by Robert de Michiell
Cell Phones- Amos Joel Jr. devised a mechanism to hand off calls from one receiver to another in cellular communications, thus allowing the modern cell phone system (1972).

Illustration by Anthony Freda
Internet- Vinton " Vint" Cerf is recognized as one of the fathers of the internet. A former manager at DARPA, he led groups in developing TCP/IP technology (1974).

Illustration by Bob Staake
Digital Camera- Steven S. Sasson designed and built the world's first digital camera. in 1975 he cobbled together a prototype and produced the first digital picture- a black-and-white, .01 megapixel photo of a lab assistant.

Illustration by Arthur Giron
Personal Computer- Dr. Mark Dean led the team that developed the ISA bus (that allows multiple devices to be connected to a single computer), as well as the team that created the first one-gigahertz computer processing chip (1981).

Workbook and Scott Hull Associates are proud to announce that Curtis Parker’s work for Panera Breads was chosen to appear in the Society of Illustrators 54th annual and exhibition.

Society of Illustrators is the premier showcase for illustrators and animators, featuring over 400 pieces of the most outstanding works created throughout the year. Open to artists worldwide, thousands of entries were considered by a jury of professionals, which include renowned illustrators, art directors and designers.

It’s so nice to be noticed!





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We are happy to announce that Workbook Illustrator Veronica Lawlor has been selected for American Illustration 30.

Two of her Macy's Thanksgiving parade reportage drawings were selected for the AI30 book and her Times Square reportage for Canson was chosen for the AI30 website.


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Below is Lisa's award winning image:

By Leland Bobbe



My photograph, titled Owen, was just awarded as a nominee in the 5th Annual Photography Masters Cup in the portrait category. This competition honors color photography only. This was shot right on the streets of NYC using a 200mm lens, natural light and a reflector


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