I just learned that MOVING PHOTOGRAPH was the winner of the Living Art contest. A huge thanks to Alexx Henry, first for having the generosity to a hold a contest, and then for picking me. I am honored. Hearing Alexx and the other speakers at the Collision Conference changed the direction of my career. I [...]
Archive | December, 2009
Rescued Fighting Dogs, Time Magazine
The edit was done in Final Cut. By stacking the clips in the time line one on top of each other, and then using the Motion tab-Crop and animating it with key frames, I was able to get more than one dog in the frame. The time line ended up looking like a huge V, [...]
Moving Photographs, on Location, Time Magazine
This is my assistant Robert with the doorway dolly getting the timing of the move dialed in. I can’t reveal yet what we were shooting, as it has yet to be posted and published by the magazine, however I can tell you this was one of the most personally moving stories I have ever done- [...]
HOW TO: Rescued Fighting Dogs Stills, Time Magazine
This was one of the best feeling jobs I have done in years. Time Magazine was great about giving me all the support I could ask for. Feel great about the results, feel great about the dogs, feel great about the people I was working with. Here is the story of how these pictures came [...]
Apple Tablet for Sports Illustrated
I was told about this a month ago at a meeting at Time Inc and now I can publish it. Expect Conde Nast to make a similar interface for all their magazines. This is why if you are a photographer and you are not doing motion, you are on the soon to be extinct list. [...]
Moving Photograph
The idea here was sort of a play on words, how moving can I make a photograph? I hired an actress who could cry on command, which is a talent that absolutely mystifies me. I wanted her to go through a range of emotion from happy to sad, but for reasons that became clear once [...]
About
David Harry Stewart is a photographer and director. He comes from a small town in western New York. He started taking pictures at the age of 8, first with a plastic Kodak 126, then a Polaroid Swinger. He did his first national ad campaign at age 23, then moved on to Paris to work for fashion magazines. Returning to New York he has a successful and award winning career, working for magazines like Interview, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, New York Magazine, Time and The New York Times Magazine. Agency work includes Saatchi, Deutsch, BBDO, Leo Burnett, and Ogilivy, for clients such as American Express, Nike, Coke, Corona and Bank of America. Awards include Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, Photo District News, The Living Photograph Motion Awards, and American Photography. He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York.
