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| Steven Lippman | |
|---|---|
| Born | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Photography |
Steven Lippman is a former competitive surfer and skateboarder turned commercial photographer and director who has been called "one of the most explosive and diverse photographers around today." [1] Specializing in lifestyle, fashion, and beach/rock & roll culture, he has shot advertising campaigns for clients such as Harley-Davidson, Patrón, Paul Mitchell, Sony, Coors Light, Verizon, James Perse, and Billabong.
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D), or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer, founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1903.
Patrón is a brand of tequila products by the Patrón Spirits Company.
John Paul Mitchell Systems ("JPMS") is an American manufacturer of hair care products and styling tools through several brands including Paul Mitchell, Tea Tree, and MITCH. It was founded in 1980 by John Paul DeJoria and Paul Mitchell. The company was formerly located in Beverly Hills, California; its world headquarters is now in Century City, California, with its operations facility in Santa Clarita, California. The company is also well known for its Paul Mitchell Schools. With 109 locations throughout the United States, Paul Mitchell Schools is the largest cosmetology and barber school franchise globally. JPMS was the first professional hair care company to publicly oppose animal testing, and remains privately owned and independent.
Since first exploring filmmaking in 1995, Lippman has directed many commercials and groundbreaking viral videos. In 2011, he directed a nearly-seven-minute-long viral video for JVC Mobile Entertainment’s “TURN ME ON 4: Decades” that featured Lita Ford (an original member of the Runaways), Puddle of Mudd, Candlebox, and Rev Theory that was broadcast on the JVC billboard in Times Square and online.
A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., TYO: 6792, usually referred to as JVC or The Japan Victor Company, is a Japanese international professional and consumer electronics corporation based in Yokohama. Founded in 1927, the company is best known for introducing Japan's first televisions and for developing the Video Home System (VHS) video recorder.
Lita Rossana Ford is an English-born American rock guitarist, actress, vocalist and songwriter who was the lead guitarist for the Runaways in the late 1970s before embarking on a solo career in the 1980s.
In addition to commercial lifestyle photography, Lippman also photographs celebrities. Over the years, he has made portraits of Ryan Reynolds, Jeremy Piven, Pierce Brosnan, Jared Leto, Taylor Kitsch, and Jordana Brewster, among many others, and photographed musical acts such as the All American Rejects, Ben Harper, and Incubus.
Lifestyle photography is a kind of photography that mainly aims to capture portrait/people in situations, real-life events or milestones in an artistic manner and the art of the everyday. The primary goal is to tell stories about people's lives or to inspire people in different times. Thus, it covers multidisciplinary types of photography together. A lifestyle photographer is not only a portrait or people photographer and loves/enjoys photography as art in everyday life but is believed to be talented in photography that can also do well in other many disciplines of photography at a time such as landscape, street photography, fashion, wedding and even wildlife with one's unique vision to inspire people's lives.
Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, film producer and screenwriter, best known for playing the Marvel Comics character Deadpool.
Jeremy Samuel Piven is an American actor, comedian, and producer. He is known for his role as Ari Gold in the comedy series Entourage, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards. He also starred in the British period drama Mr Selfridge, which tells the story of the man who created the luxury English department store chain Selfridges, and portrayed Spence Kovak on Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom Ellen.
An avid environmentalist, Lippman is the director of the Blue Project, which works to protect the Earth’s oceans by teaming with other marine-oriented charitable organizations. In 2010, Ron Herman’s men’s store in Malibu, California, hosted an exhibition of Lippman’s work, titled “Waves,” to raise money for Save the Waves. The event featured eight signature images that Lippman crafted using photos from his archives along with treatments consisting of metal, wood, plants, and melted Polaroids. He also collaborated with Herman on a limited-edition clothing line that was sold at the event, also benefiting Save the Waves.
Lippman, who in 2010 was honored by SurfAid International, a nonprofit humanitarian organization whose aim is to improve the health, well-being, and self-reliance of people living in isolated communities, also he volunteers his time to Surfers Healing, which provides autistic children with the opportunity to experience the thrill of surfing.
SurfAid International is an international charitable organization working in the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia. It was founded by Dr. Dave Jenkins of New Zealand in 2000. In 1999 he was on a surfing trip in the area and saw the health problems of the local people. SurfAid's early efforts were focused on providing health education to the people and mosquito nets to prevent the spread of malaria.
Lippman lives with his wife and two children in Malibu. He is represented by Stockland Martel.
