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I’ve photographed Marty Whitman…the Founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer, and Portfolio Manager of the Third Avenue Value Fund…twice before, so when Adrian called me a couple of weeks ago to go back to the well for the third time I knew I wanted to do something completely different from what I had already done. Marty is a very cool guy…he always did whatever I came up with, whether it was to play tennis in the halls of his office, or pose under a fish that he caught on a company retreat…but this time I really just wanted to focus on Marty and do a study of just him without all the props and surroundings…..
While I was looking around the office for a place to shoot, I noticed kind of a quirky scene where they had pushed a bunch of chairs in front of some file cabinets so they could install a ping pong table in their cafeteria…
It made for another cool shot that bears a striking resemblance to a photo I did a few months ago of Neil Barofsky, the head of the TARP Fund. Maybe my next long-term photo project should be file cabinets across America……?!!
Damn Ugly Photography 
wow this looks stunning
I love that style
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sebastian
Holy smokes that is awesome!!!
Great shots Brad!
I’m thinking you could have pulled back a little.
What great photos! And you have exposed the REAL man, unretouched and honest!
Damn, you’re good. I mean really, really good. Amazing the growth achieved over a couple decades, especially when you started out as the brightest banana in the bunch….
The first close up is breath taking love it!
Okay… I don’t want to copy you – that would be impossible and pointless…. but I DO want to know how you pull this off.. I hate not knowing how something is done…. care to share?
j
Nice HDR
Actually…nothing like HDR at all…Multiply & High Pass with a good dose of desaturation, but no HDR…..BT