Two of the largest photography studios in Los Angeles, Smashbox and Quixote, have merged under the Smashbox name.
The new partnership will combine six Smashbox studios in Culver City and Santa Monica, Calif., with Quixote's four Hollywood studios, creating a total of 80,000 square feet of rental studio and office space. Quixote, for which photography constitutes about a quarter of its business, will provide management for both companies.

According to company co-founder Mikel Elliot, Quixote will continue its production operation under its own name and will dedicate one-third of its 15,000 square feet to the new partnership. The Smashbox segment, meanwhile...

Location: Studio in Beverly Hills, Calif. (manipulator.com). Resides in Los
Angeles with her husband and two children.

Number of assistants: Two to three, depending on the job.

Preferred equipment: Profoto, Elinchrome, Mamiya. Although Greenberg says that she prefers to use film to achieve her signature burnished look, she relies on digital image manipulation during production. After all...

Photographer Arnold Newman, known for his portraits of artists and politicians, passed away in early June at the age of 88. Newman, who had been recovering from a stroke, died of a heart attack.

Newman's style was known as environmental portraiture, placing his subjects in the context of their life and work. Among his most famous portraits are those of composer Igor Stravinsky, Andy Warhol, Alfried Krupp, Pablo Picasso, Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Among his many honors, Newman was voted one of the world's 10 best photographers in a...

Part mother hen, part accountant, part field general, the producer ensures that the show must go on.

There are list makers in this world, and there are people who flow freely through life, without clock or calendar. Although photographers may fit in to either of these categories, studio producers always fall firmly in to the first group.

It's safe to say that, behind every great photographer, there is a producer standing in...

Determining the value of your work is one of the most important,and overlooked, aspects of professional photography.

Most photographers live to see their work being used to sell, tell or intrigue — on walls, posters and web sites; in ads, books and magazines. Few of us were attracted to photo-graphy with the thought that it was a way to make money.

It's no surprise, then, that photographers tend to shy away from discussions of compensation for their work. For many, there's the ever-present anxiety that the very destiny of the image...

Canon USA has expanded its Explorers of Light panel with the addition of 20 photographers from all segments of the industry.

Joining the roster for the first time are Joe Buissink, Bob Davis, John Dibbs, Don Emmerich, Rod Evans, Hansen Fong, Paul Gero, Darrell Gulin, Jeff Hawkins, Stephen Johnson, Adam Jones, Vincent Laforet, Terrell Lloyd, Andy Marcus, Parker Pfister, Fran Reisner, Ken Sklute, Onne Van Der Wal and Jeff Woods.

Among the six professional photographers recently inducted into Microsoft's new Icons of Imaging program, three were from the western United States: Bambi Cantrell, a portrait photographer based in Pleasant Hills, Calif.; nature and landscape photographer John Shaw, who lives in Colorado Springs, Colo.; and wildlife and nature photographer Art Wolfe, who has a studio in Seattle.

The other photographers honored by Microsoft were Reed Hoffmann of Kansas City, Denis Reggie of Atlanta and Matthew Jordan Smith of New York (see microsoft.com).

Frans Lanting's multimedia project, "Life: A Journey Through Time," was featured on the National Public Radio program "Day to Day" in late July. The broadcast is available from the NPR archives, at www.npr.org.

Lanting envisioned the project as a lyrical interpretation of life on Earth from its earliest beginnings to its present diversity. The musical version was produced by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, in collaboration with visual designer Alexander V. Nichols and composer Philip Glass. Conductor Marin Alsop also appeared on the program.

French photojournalist Catherine Leroy, who covered the Vietnam War as well as many other global conflicts, died of cancer on July 8. She was 60.

In 1966, at the age of 21, Leroy packed up her Leica and bought a one-way ticket to Vietnam. While photographing the combat, she was wounded with a Marine unit in the DMZ, and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army during the 1968 Tet offensive. Her views of the North Vietnamese Army in action landed her a Life cover.

In 1972, Leroy shot and directed "Operation Last Patrol," a film about...

The Advertising Photographers of America has elected Don Dormeyer, a portrait photographer from Orange County, Calif., president of the organization. Dormeyer succeeds George Fulton, who had served as APA's national president for the past three years.

Other new officers include Martin Trailer, San Diego, senior vice president; Matthew Klein, New York City, vice president; Jon Silla, Charlotte, N.C., vice president; Paul Nurnberg, Savannah, Ga., secretary; and George Simian, Los Angeles, treasurer.