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."
Specializing in lifestyle, fashion, and beach/rock & roll culture, he has shot advertising campaigns for clients such as
Harley-Davidson
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1903, it is one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depressi ...
,
Patrón
Patrón is a brand of tequila products by the Patrón Spirits Company with 40% Alcohol in each bottle.
Patrón Tequilas, like all tequilas, are produced in Mexico from the "corazon" (heart or core) of the blue agave plant. Everything includin ...
,
Paul Mitchell,
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professiona ...
,
Coors Light
Coors Light is a 4.2% (US) ABV light beer brewed in Golden, Colorado; Albany, Georgia; Elkton, Virginia; Fort Worth, Texas; Irwindale, California; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was first produced in 1978 by the Coors Brewing Company. The Ca ...
,
Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas ...
, James Perse, and
Billabong
Billabong ( ) is an Australian term for an oxbow lake, an isolated pond left behind after a river changes course. Billabongs are usually formed when the path of a creek or river changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end. As a result ...
.
Since first exploring filmmaking in 1995, Lippman has directed many commercials and groundbreaking
viral video
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s. 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
Lita Rossana Ford (born 19 September 1958) is an English-born American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the lead guitarist for the all-female rock band the Runaways in the late 1970s, before embarking on a successful glam metal sol ...
(an original member of
the Runaways
The Runaways were an all-female American rock band who recorded and performed from 1975 to 1979. The band released four studio albums and one live album during its run. Among their best-known songs are " Cherry Bomb", "Hollywood", "Queens of ...
),
Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd is an American rock band formed in Kansas City, Missouri in 1992. To date, the band has sold over seven million albums and has had a string of No. 1 mainstream rock singles in the United States. Their major-label debut '' C ...
,
Candlebox
Candlebox is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington. Since its formation in 1990, the group has released seven studio albums, several charting singles, a compilation, and a CD+DVD.
Candlebox found immediate success with the release of ...
, and
Rev Theory
Rev Theory (formerly known as Revelation Theory) is an American rock band formed in 2002 in North Andover, Massachusetts. The band has released four studio albums: ''Truth Is Currency'' (2005), '' Light It Up'' (2008), ''Justice'' (2011) and '' ...
that was broadcast on the JVC billboard in
Times Square
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and online.
In addition to commercial
lifestyle photography
Lifestyle photography is a genre of photography that mainly aims to capture portraits of 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 liv ...
, Lippman also photographs celebrities. Over the years, he has made portraits of
Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian-American actor. He is one of the highest-grossing film actors of all time, with a worldwide box-office gross of over billion.
He began his career starring in the Canadian teen ...
,
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an American actor. He is best 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 Britis ...
,
Pierce Brosnan,
Jared Leto,
Taylor Kitsch
Taylor Kitsch (born April 8, 1981) is a Canadian actor and model who has portrayed Tim Riggins in the NBC television series '' Friday Night Lights'' (2006–2011). He has also worked in films such as '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' (2009), ''Battle ...
, and
Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is a Panamanian-American actress. Best known for her role as Mia Toretto in the ''Fast & Furious'' franchise, she made her acting debut in an episode of ''All My Children'' in 1995 and next took on the recu ...
, among many others, and photographed musical acts such as the
All American Rejects
The All-American Rejects is an American rock band from Stillwater, Oklahoma, formed in 1999.[Ben Harper
Benjamin Chase Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live perfo ...]
, and
Incubus
An incubus is a demon in male form in folklore that seeks to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; the corresponding spirit in female form is called a succubus. In medieval Europe, union with an incubus was supposed by some to result in t ...
.
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
SurfAid International (often called just SurfAid) 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 ...
, 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.
Lippman lives with his wife and two children in Malibu. He is represented by
Stockland Martel.
References
JVC Mobile Entertainment Announces “TURN ME ON 4: Decades” Campaign official press release May 17, 2011Photog Steven Lippman's "New Archives" Exhibition Opens May 10th Surfline.com April 17, 2008Bio at Maneater Productions August 2010
* ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=615DoLt73ZI SurfAid International Honors Steven Lippman and the Malibu Blue Project, YouTube October 20, 2010br>“Autism & the Stoke of Surfing,” Steven Lippman’s blog April 5, 2010
External links
Official Siteportfolio at Stockland Martel photo agencyThe Blue ProjectSteven Lippman on Vimeo
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Living people
1964 births
Photographers from California