Edition Announcement #252 - Landon Nordeman

Nice Pants by Landon Nordeman
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West-Coast greetings collector friends! I'm still hustling around semi-soggy San Francisco as team JBP gears up for this weekend's artfest in NYC. I hear our Art Fair Survival Kits are coming along swimmingly. As I mentioned yesterday, they'll be stuffed with all kinds of goodies — what I didn't let on was that among the totes we're handing out, a golden few will include a 10"x8" print of William Powhida's ridiculously rapid-selling Why You Should Buy Art (the sole remaining edition of 14"x11" prints is quickly dwindling). Sweet surprise, no!? I thinks so. All the more reason to pick up your Live With Art tote at our soon-to-be-disclosed locations. Stay tuned; we'll have a dispatch with all the details, tomorrow!

Striding in to save us all from the mid-week slump is today's aptly-titled edition, Nice Pants. Evidence that good things come in threes, these poly-patterned golfers paraded across Landon Nordeman's roving frame, providing a perfect photo op. Fast and often funny, Landon is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Saveur. His Best-in-Show photos for TNY of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show got a shout-out from super blogger (and first-ever Hot Shot) Rachel Hulin who concurs, Landon's work is great: "when the images from the WKC Dog Show come out in the magazines and I laugh and feel oh so amused, in that delightful Christopher Guest-ian way. No one does it better than Landon Nordeman." And yes, Weimaraners are the best dogs to photograph! We know at least one other photographer — not to mention hundreds of collectors — who agree.

Landon's fans are not limited to fellow photographers alone. New-to-team JBP, our ever-sunny superstar Philae Knight counts Landon among friends and says, "Landon sees the world with fun and optimism. He's zany and adventurous. He took one of my favorite portraits when I was dressed up as a geisha for a masquerade wedding. All my make-up was happily documented. I suppose it was a fitting subject for Landon... Elvis fan clubs, geishas, dogs... Who doesn't love a man in zany pants?"

Funny stuff aside, his work reminds me of that of former Village Voice and fellow TNY photographer Sylvia Plachy. She's another one to not drop her eye from the viewfinder, picking up bits and pieces of optimistic humanism in visual form. It was this sense of the brighter things in life that attracted the eyes of the Hey, Hot Shot! panelists when Landon submitted this very photo last season. We saw it there first and it's now my pleasure to present it to you here, just a few days before our newest Hot Shots make their debut at JBG on Friday. I hope you like it and we hope to see you there!

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