max s. gerber(the latest shot)

last weekend lili haydn played with roger waters at the close of the coachella music festival. i was not in attendance at coachella, but this likely has a lot more to do with my dislike of the great outdoors than it does with music. i like roger waters. i listened to shine on you crazy [...]

i found this in my mother’s office, the remnant of some piece of junk mail, no doubt. i wish someone would tell me what to do about me, too.

well, it’s monday. okay, monday night, but i thought this would be an opportune time for a handful of updates from previous weeks. three guys in suits. one of these days i’ll convince all my fellow photographers to set up www.guysinsuits.com and we can put all these pictures in one place. in any event, welcome [...]

abigail breslin (star of little miss sunshine), photographed at the four seasons hotel in beverly hills. we waited around for three hours, and were promised a full fifteen minutes with abigail. i looked at the time stamp on my camera’s metadata. the publicists shut us down after six minutes and thirty-six seconds. this was, of [...]

my mother and the new york times are inseparable. she spends a great deal of time pouring over the paper and sending me clippings. sometimes she figures out how to do this electronically, in which case i get three or four of the same email right in a row. my mother has done a great [...]

i’ve known tim for more than twenty years. we were in jr. high school and high school together and have remained friends. tim now lives in rio de janeiro, with his wife, dada, a neonatologist. he doesn’t make it back to the states more than once or twice a year, and now that he has [...]

there are so few overcast days in southern california that whenever we do have one i feel bad if i’m not taking advantage of it. linda is my neighbor, she lives in the house behind mine. we share a yard and a driveway. i get her mail when she goes out of town, and vice [...]

i just got back from a very stressful week in new york. stressful because of random scheduling difficulties, family pressures and the general feeling of unrest and unease that new york city causes me. i’m the only person i know who hates traveling. i’ve recently given up thinking that everyone else is wrong and i [...]