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Category Archives: Biography
Kimmel Sinatra Ketchup
Shooting with Jimmy Kimmel was a particular treat for me as I’ve been a fan since his Man Show days. I was not surprised that he brought a relaxed demeanor to our brief shoot, but there were also moments of warmth, curiosity and, of … Continue reading
Dear Mark Eitzel
I suppose that it’s a reasonable assumption that over a long career a portrait photographer would become friends with many of his subjects but it’s actually been quite rare for me. A wonderful exception is Mark Eitzel. I had been obsessed … Continue reading
Hear BUCK live!
In January of this year Joshua Trinidad, a young Jazz musician, contacted me asking if he could use my photographs as inspiration for some new compositions. I, of course, re-read the email three times to make sure that I was … Continue reading
Carl Sagan Beating
I had the recent pleasure of getting an assignment from Wired Magazine that took me back to the good old days of no-budget editorial photography. I know that photographers talk about the eighties and nineties as the glory days of … Continue reading
Posted in Behind The Scenes, Biography, Editorial, On Set, Photography
Tagged Carrie Levy, Chris Buck, Global Effects, Seth MacFarlane, Wired Magazine
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Golden Gate Party 1987
The organizers of the 50th Anniversary Celebration for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco expected perhaps 50,000 people to participate in their open bridge walk, so they were pretty shocked, and unprepared, when 800,000 showed up. I was visiting … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Photography, Snapshots
Tagged 1987, Caroline Otto, Chris Buck, Golden Gate 75th Anniversary, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge 50th Anniversary, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Laboratory for Construction Technology, May 24, San Francisco, Spiro N. Pollalis
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Taking the Camera for “A Day”
A few months ago my friend, and long-time Guardian Weekend Magazine client, Kate Edwards forwarded me an email about a planned world photography day, call A DAY. It’s the not kind of thing that I would usually participate in (I’m … Continue reading
It’s Greg Miller Time!
I don’t remember when I first met Greg Miller but I do know when he first made an impression on me. We were riding the subway together, probably having crossed paths at the Village Voice (we both freelanced for them … Continue reading
Posted in Behind The Scenes, Biography, Inspiration, On Set, Photographer Colleagues, Photography, Snapshots
Tagged 8x10 camera, Ash Wednesday, Chris Buck, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Greg Miller, Irving Penn, Louisville Epiphany, New York City, Roman Catholic, Street Photography, Thomas Merton, Village Voice
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Direct Mailer Part 5: Take a Photographer Hunting
Spin Magazine hired me to trail Oliver North for three days when he ran for one of Virginia’s Senate seats in 1994. My primary medium at the time was the Hasselblad and the magazine encouraged me to shoot black-and-white – … Continue reading
Posted in Behind The Scenes, Biography, Editorial, On Set, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Chris Buck, Euphemist, Hasselblad, Marc Cooper, National Rifle Association, NRA, Oliver North, Spin Magazine
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Direct Mailer Part 3: Andrew Hetherington Tease
Amongst the many odd and old bio bits hidden in my EUPHEMIST promo is something new and fresh – an on-set portrait of me by Andrew Hetherington. I was very pleased to be asked by Andrew to be included in … Continue reading
Direct Mailer Part 2: Bruce Davidson & the Tagger
My new mailer, EUPHEMIST is bound with a French fold and hidden within each fold is some odd or interesting biographical item. The right edge of each page is perforated, as in invitation to tear open the French fold. Tucked … Continue reading
Posted in Behind The Scenes, Biography, Family, Photography, Snapshots, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged 1982, Bruce Davidson, Chris 217, Chris Buck, Eddie Murphy, Euphemist, Kevin Smith, Mink DeVille, New York, Robert Urich, Saturday Night Live, Subway book, Toronto, Xerox
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