December 4, 2008 by George Koroneos
While most of the art world is heading to Miami for Art Basil, Jonathan Levine has one of the swankiest artist exhibiting at his gallery for the month of December. Yes, I’m talking about the king of modern cool and tiki style Josh “Shag” Agle. I got the chance to photograph the artist before the opening a few weeks back in a room that was pretty much created to show of his new wallpaper. The only other thing in the gallery was a trio of wooden fish dangling from the ceiling. Pretty surreal. Too bad I didn’t have a wide angle lens with me to catch the full fish.
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April 17, 2008 by George Koroneos
Joshua Liner’s new gallery opened up last week and the place was packed with people and great work. I had a blast photographing dozens of artists that attended the VIP previews, and probably fired off more than 400 photos over the course of the three hour event.
Photographing people at galleries can be a giant pain in the ass. Most of the lighting is focused on the paintings, so you have to shoot with flash to avoid losing the detail in peoples’ faces. Luckily most galleries have all white walls and ceilings, so you can bounce the flash off of anything. I usually leave the white balance on auto and just adjust all the photos en masse in Lightroom after the fact.
Luckily, Liner had a ton of lighting (and air conditioning) overhead, allowing me to drop the ISO to 400. This was one of the easier gallery events to shoot and there was a ton of subjects to capture on film.
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