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Party time for Southern Wine & Spirits
In a lovely Mediterranean Revival-style mansion hidden behind an unobtrusive entrance on Miami Beach's Collins Avenue, there was a party for South Florida restaurateurs and the beverage industry,...
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"The Most Beautifiul Pool in Florida"
In 1940, as America teetered on the brink of a catclysmic World War, several luxurious Art Deco hotels were placed on Miami Beach's Collins Avenue like a string of gleaming pearls on a necklace. One of...
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Versace - 10 years later
Ten years ago today, Gianni Versace was murdered on the rich stone steps of his Ocean Drive palazzo, his tragic and senseless death marking the end of a Miami Beach era. I wrote about this a year ago...
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Crocodile! On a golf course
I've been photographing golf courses lately for TDI International, a company that builds and renovates golf courses. During a recent shoot at Deering Bay Yacht & Country Club, we saw this...
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Sleepless in Miami
Saturday night Miami Beach was more interesting than usual with art installations and live performances all over town nearly until dawn -- part of what was billed as a $400,000 "Sleepless Night" of...
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Jai Pakistan . . . Jai Democracy!
Snuffing out the Constitution, muzzling the press, arresting liberal lawyers, firing the Supreme Court, outlawing public gatherings of more than three people, beating up protesters, suspending...
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The Postcard Aesthetic
After scanning, captioning, key-wording and retouching numerous vintage postcards from the 1900s through the 1960s for my new stock image archive, I'm beginning to see real life as a series of postcard...
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Doorways in Time
Back in the 1930s and '40s, before air-conditioning was commonplace, most houses in Miami Beach had screen doors -- beautiful Art Deco screen doors.Though South Beach's historic district is supposed to...
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Jiussana Goes Glamour
The lovely Jiussana, who used to a be a pop star in Mexico and now is in the clothing business in Miami, came to my studio last week for glamour shoot with a retro feel.We took our inspiration from old...
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Neon, the Night and the G9
It was built in 1948 in New Jersey, but it sits today in Miami Beach on the corner of Washington and 11th, a big silver slice of gleaming, open-24-hours-a-day, Americana: the 11th Street Diner.The menu...
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Ted Kennedy
The recent outpouring of respect and affection for Ted Kennedy -- even from hyper-partisan, conservative Republican opponents -- surprised me.I thought our national politics had become so debased, so...
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Florida Governor Charlie Crist
Florida's liberal Republican Governor Charlie Crist held his second annual "Serve to Preserve Summit on Global Climate Change" and alternate energy recently, and I covered it, making the above photo of...
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Be a Wok Star
My friend Eleanor made me a Wok Star.Born in China, raised in Hong Kong, and educated at fancy schools in England, Eleanor Hoh speaks with a deliciously plummy English accent.She's been an...
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Bread and Butter
Food photography has been my bread and butter lately, and here's a photograph I made of . . . bread and butter. With apricot jam. I created this and many images of burgers, sandwiches, strawberries,...
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A Box Of Chocolates
Beautiful chocolates from Godiva in my studio this week. In a box. With gold and silver backgrounds. And very macro close-ups.
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Art Basel Miami Beach
The most magnificent art fair in the Americas, replete with Picassos, Mirós and astonishing works by up-and-coming artists like Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Art Basel Miami Beach is always a treat to...
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Merry Christmas!
Model Sharlene, hair and make-up artist Yajaira, and I created a retro glamour Christmas card this year. The space Blogger allocates for photos -- only 400 pixels high -- is really too small to...
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Happy New Year!
Fireworks at the birth of 2009 in Miami Beach. Ocean Drive was closed to cars; the restaurants set up extra tables and chairs on the pavement and people danced in the street. It was a huge, happy,...
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South Beach bouncing back
Recession? Unemployment? Stock market plunging? Worldwide crisis?You'd never know it on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach's main shopping street.Business seems to be booming -- in 16 years, I've never seen the...
View ArticleThe Kent Hotel Video Remix
Here's a video I made with stills from my photo-shoot at The Kent Hotel last week.This Miami Beach landmark on Collins Avenue was designed by architect L. Murray Dixon in a streamlined Art Deco style...
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