Golden Gate Party 1987
I was visiting that San Francisco during that week in May 1987 when the Golden Gate Bridge celebration took place. I didn’t get far as we tried to join the walkers on the bridge, but I took plenty of photographs.
Taking The Camera for “A Day”
Their directives were to take your camera along for the day and try to think outside the box. As I don’t generally carry my camera around, or specialize in candid photographs, I was definitely outside of my comfort zone.
Moo Yorker
This curious New Yorker story is about the controversy over raw milk and its gray-market status. It has generated a lot of discussion, and now the photo dept has posted a short interview with me on the subject.
5 Favorite Photo Books
Digging through the books on my shelf I’ve compiled my five favorites. I’m not actually a big photo book collector but I’ve managed to get across what I love about these books with this round-up.
Men Want Vargas Girls
Is there a fatal flaw in shooting young women in the style of Alberto Vargas when the central theme of the text is that men really do care about more than looks?
It’s Greg Miller Time!
Greg Miller has shot a number of series with his 8×10 camera but my favorite are his Ash Wednesday portraits, titled “Unto Dust.” I interviewed him about the project, via email.
Bush 41 & Lürzer’s 200
The latest edition of Lürzer’s Archive 200 Best Ad Photographers features three of my photographs, including this portrait of President George H. W. and Mrs. Bush.
Euphemist Mailer Part 5: Take A Photographer Hunting
Our last stop with Oliver North was a sportsman’s convention, primarily selling firearms and knives. In the back corner was a fully functional shooting range set up by the National Rifle Association.
Euphemist Mailer Part 4: Adam Sandler’s Teenage Bride
My favorite item hidden in the French folds of my Euphemist promo is a thank you letter I received from a teenager smitten with Adam Sandler.
Gary Oldman Homage
Flattery takes its sincerest form when a photo student emailed me his homage to my Gary Oldman portrait.
Euphemist Mailer 3: Andrew Hetherington Tease
Andrew approached me at a PDN Annual party many years ago. I was flattered that this great photographer asked to get his photo taken with me until the next day when I looked at his blog, “What’s The Jackatory?,“ and saw that he’d gotten his picture done with nearly everyone in the room.
Ed Helms Shares His Nuts
Bon Appétit assigned me to shoot Ed Helms, the picture is to accompany a Q & A that focuses on his taste for boiled nuts.
Rap Darwinism
Wired Magazine proposed this as a modest still shoot with Baba Brinkman, then requested video just before the shoot date. A white rapper doing an off-Broadway show about science and evolution is certainly unusual but the portrait solution seemed almost predestined.
Euphemist Mailer Part 2: Bruce Davidson & The Tagger
I loved this photo from our family trip to New York, with the tagging of my name on the mail carrier’s box. Later Magnum published a book of landscape photos and I found a photo from Bruce Davidson’s Subway series that pictured graffiti of the word “Chris.”
Euphemist Mailer Part 1: Chris Buck Is A Euphemist
Over the past month I’ve been rolling out a new direct mailer. It’s likely the most impressive single piece that I’ve ever produced, but it didn’t start out that way.
With A Rebel Yael
I asked intern Yael Young to be a guest blogger this week. She included some background on our recent TVO ad shoot in Toronto.
iPhone Gets Wood
The case for my iPhone is made of bamboo and looks like a camera.
Ponder Like It’s 1999
As the twentieth century was coming to an end Sheila Heti polled a number of friends and colleagues “To learn what artists think about how they work and discover what contemporary artists share.”
Sinatra’s Signature Song?
What is Frank Sinatra’s signature song? “Come Fly With Me”? “I’ve Got The World On A String”? Maybe “New York New York?” No, it’s “Ol’ MacDonald.” Well, at least in our household it is.
Finding Elliott Smith
I thought that the whole session was lost but I came across the four rolls of black-and-white negatives and the clip tests of the color rolls.