Category Archives: Travel

Heidelberg Press (sort of)

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Chris

This past spring I was invited to Heidelberg, Germany to visit the Kehrer Verlag offices and to be on press for my book PRESENCE: The Invisible Portrait. Kehrer had agreed to put out my collection of hidden celebrity photographs about … Continue reading →

Posted in Behind The Scenes, Photography, Presence Book, Promotion, Travel | Tagged Alexa Becker, Ariane Braun, Barbara Karpf, Charles Fréger, Chris Buck, Daimler Museum, Gabriela Koenig, Germany, Hannah Feldmeirer, Heidelberg, Kehrer Verlag, Klaus Kehrer, Malte Wandel, matchprint, Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3, Patrick Horn, Presence, Stuttgart, Thomas Streicher | 3 Comments

Moo Yorker

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Chris

I’ve just shot my first assignment for The New Yorker and I couldn’t be more pleased. The New Yorker has been on my shortlist of most-desired editorial clients for a long, long time so it was a wonderful surprise when … Continue reading →

Posted in Behind The Scenes, Editorial, On Set, Photography, Travel, Uncategorized | Tagged Chris Buck, Dana Goodyear, Holstein cows, Jessie Wender, Karl Preheim, Mark McAfee, Michael Alfheim, Organic Pastures, raw milk, The New Yorker, Whitney Johnson | Leave a comment

Direct Mailer Part 5: Take a Photographer Hunting

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Chris

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 | Leave a comment

Direct Mailer Part 2: Bruce Davidson & the Tagger

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Chris

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 | 1 Comment

Digging Up Elliott Smith

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Chris

Many of my contemporaries made names for themselves, and good money, shooting for record companies in the nineties. It made sense that I should go that direction too as I started out shooting musicians almost exclusively – but for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Behind The Scenes, On Set, Photography, Travel | Tagged Chris Buck, Dreamworks, Elliott Smith | 17 Comments

Make Your Face A Maynards, part 2

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Chris

Maynards Candy has staged an impressive contest to find the best Canadian face to put on one of their candies. I shot the ad campaign while in Toronto recently and that lead to them asking me to be one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Behind The Scenes, Biography, Photography, Press, Press & Media, Promotion, Travel, Videos | Tagged Annette Hamm, Bob Cowan, CH Morning Live, Chris Buck, Hamilton, Make Your Face A Maynards, Maynards | Leave a comment

No Longer Interesting

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Chris

This is the kind of post that my friend Stephen Gates would do on his media blog, where he often critiques what’s wrong in design and advertising, but I came across this standee for Dos Equis at an airport bar … Continue reading →

Posted in Behind The Scenes, Inspiration, Snapshots, Travel | Tagged Chris Buck, Dos Equis, Euro RSCG, Jonathan Goldsmith, Stephen Gates, The Most Interesting Man In The World | 2 Comments

21st Year in New York

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Chris

This week marks my twenty-first year in New York. I moved from my parent’s basement in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke to Williamsburg, Brooklyn on July 14th, 1990. I took a space in a warehouse building on Bedford Ave, across … Continue reading →

Posted in Behind The Scenes, Biography, Editorial, Photography, Travel | Tagged Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, Bruce Ramsay, Chris Buck, Dave Heath, Etobicoke, Guitar World, Robert Newman, Spalding Gray, Toronto, Village Voice, Williamsburg | 2 Comments

No Bird Audubon

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Chris

It’s always a treat to get called by Audubon but this one offered a strange paradox – depict a bird sanctuary sans the birds. It seems that an earlier attempt to illustrate this story resulted in flash photographed birds and … Continue reading →

Posted in Behind The Scenes, Editorial, Inspiration, On Set, Photography, Travel | Tagged Audubon Magazine, chimney swift, Chris Buck, Georgean Kyle, Lars Von Trier, Paul Kyle, The Five Obstructions | 1 Comment

Xerox ads meet the world

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Chris

I’m in Los Angeles this week shooting another co-branding ad with the Xerox company and Young & Rubicam. We have a great team on this, from the folks at Xerox to the ad agency to the on-set crew, making it … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Behind The Scenes, Photography, Snapshots, Travel | Tagged Chris Buck, dog, JFK Airport, Merriott, Target, Xerox | Leave a comment