Photography Master Class at Newcomers High School
Photography Master Class at Newcomers High School Several years ago, I led a Photography Master Class at Newcomers High School in Queens, my second session with Urban Arts students. The School Newcomers High School41st Avenue, Queens, NY 11101 (With photography) You...
Luxury Stores Pull Out Mandarin Phrase Books
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD, published in the NEW YORK TIMES on April 14, 2012 Over five days in January, a group of visitors to New York was treated to a private concert with the pianist Lang Lang at the Montblanc store, cocktails and a fashion show attended by the...
2012 CMO Spotlight Forum: Retail and Consumer Goods & Services (New York)
2012 CMO Spotlight Forum: Retail and Consumer Goods & Services (New York) April 5, 2012 Jan-Patrick Schmitz President & CEO Montblanc North America Interviewed by: Tim Moran Editor in Chief CMO.com [Tim Moran]: Hello, everybody. I’m Tim Moran,...
A Place of Darkness
A Place of Darkness It is one of the most chilling places on our planet. One cold December morning, I drove to Dachau, a small town in the periphery of Munich. Clouds were fighting with the sun about who would dominate the day: a diffused dark grey or a bright yellow...
CNBC Consumer Market Outlook
Luxury Retail Continues to do Well: CEO CNBC | THU 22 DEC 11 | 05:40 AM ET Jan-Patrick Schmitz, CEO of Montblanc North America, told CNBC, “when you look back at 2011 you see that in particular the luxury segment has done quite well compared to the...
Freedom
Finally arrived Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Date: 12/19/2011 Location: Liberty Park +40° 42′ 2.22″, -74° 2′ 48.56″ Focal Length: 23 mm Exposure: 1/80 sec at f/16, ISO 200
Time Capsule: November 20, 1923
Learning from History Between 1850 and 1914, world trade grew tenfold. The trend was driven by several factors: faster and bigger ships, transcontinental railways, and the establishment of international news and information systems, most prominently the telegraph,...
Mark My Words
MARK MY WORDS was a once-in-a-lifetime event which was made possible under the patronage of Montblanc. It was a conversation between three of America’s most popular and beloved authors. Moderated by author and community activist Malaak Compton-Rock, this was a...
In eigener Sache
A growing selection of my photographs is now shown on Artflakes.com. The site displays and sells the work of artists, photographers, designers and archives. It is their mission to help all individualists of this world to stop buying standardised goods off the...
John Isaac: The Vale of Kashmir
Author: John Isaac Title: The Vale of Kashmir Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Kashmir is a fascinating, exotic place with some truly breathtaking landscape. The views are untouched by the political struggles which rattled the region over time. John Isaac’s...
8:46 a.m.
Sunset or Sunrise? Beginning or the End? I am sitting in an airplane somewhere above the Atlantic, racing back to New York. Home. Ten years ago, in the evening, I was working in my office in Tokyo when my wife called asking to join her – at once...
The Great Integrity
The Great Integrity imposes no action, yet it leaves nothing undone. Were governments to embrace it, everything would develop naturally. If thereafter an old ego should reincarnate, the already permeated Primal Simplicity would neutralize it in its pervasive silence....
Watching You
Kilroy was here Early one morning when I was ready to begin my the day with a fresh espresso, I found the kitchen door guarded by a cicada. This promised to be an interesting shot. I grabbed my 1D and quickly mounted a 50 mm macro lens, went...
Shadow of Words
When I saw on the ground the shadow of the letters which form Jaume Plensa’s sculpture “Nomade”, I remembered the German proverb “Papier ist geduldig”, which translates into “Paper is endlessly patient”. I guess the modern...
James Nachtwey: Inferno
This is the first post of a new section called “Bibliography” where I will comment predominantly on books from other photographers. Author: James Nachtwey Title: INFERNO Publisher: Phaidon Press My library of photography books is very...
Himmelsstürmer
Sieger wollten wir sein stets lauter höher die Liebe verbrannt wie Ikarus’ Flügel während wir wie rosa Geigen aus dem Himmel fielen saitenlos ohne Resonanz zerschellt Beate Reuker Sieger wollten wir sein stets lauter höher die Liebe verbrannt wie Ikarus’...
Grenzfall
Date: 07.16.2011 Location: Zugspitze +47° 27′ 12.23″, +11° 4′ 1.80″ Focal Length: 23 mm Exposure: 1/500 sec at f/2.8, ISO320
Persistence of Memory
As we travel through time, the written word is the eternal memory of our conscience.