TCF Ep. 466 - Mark de Paola

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Mark de Paola was literally born into a photo studio on Cahuenga Blvd in Los Angeles and grew up splitting time between Los Angeles and New York. Mark's earliest recollections are of watching photo shoots and being completely immersed in the fashion books and periodicals of the time, Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Mark's photographic foundation is the works of his father Alessio, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern, and Art Kane. Mark's vision is best described as a combination of reportage, fashion, and beauty. It has always been Mark's objective to capture a natural beauty in a setting where a model's personality is allowed to flourish while a story is being told. Mark's very first assignment was a magazine cover image of actor Henry Fonda. While working in New York, Los Angeles, and Milano, Mark would go on to shoot countless campaigns, editorials, and covers, including those for Vogue Mexico and Vogue Spain. Mark's storytelling still style quickly translated to motion/ television commercials where Mark directed/shot several hundred spots including those for Anheuser-Busch (aired on Super Bowl), Giorgio Perfume (exhibited in Museum of Modern Art N.Y.), Donna Karan, Neutrogena, English Ideas Cosmetics, Sony Cybershot, Century 21 Real Estate, Ford Motorsports, Toyota, Ducati Motorcycles, Kawasaki Jet Skis, and many more; all with an eye for style and realism. De Paola continues to work with select clients around the world combining his artistic sensibilities. Mark's work is included in fine art photographic collections, both public and private, around the world. Photographer Links: Education Resources: Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	I'm Mike Leonard, a Canadian living in Tokyo, and this is the Candid Frame.
0:14.0	Louis Pasteur said that chance favors only the prepared mind. He was speaking about those moments of inspiration that allow a
0:23.3	scientist to make a leap of thought and action that's contrary to not only accepted norms,
0:30.0	but even one's own instincts. It's no less so for photographers who sometimes find
0:36.5	opportunities under the most unusual
0:39.5	of circumstances.
0:41.4	Mark DePala has experienced moments like that during his career as a photographer.
0:46.5	Before he was photographing major fashion campaigns and directing commercials, he was a young
0:51.7	man looking to market himself as a headshot photographer. So one day,
0:56.6	he went to the offices of a local trade publication to place an ad. When a woman behind the desk
1:02.5	motioned for him to come into her office and asked him a question. So I finished my business with the
1:08.5	receptionist and she waves me into her office.
1:11.6	And I again looked behind me to see whether she was actually talking to me and I'd go in the room.
1:17.6	And she says, you good.
1:20.6	And again, I look behind me, excuse me, is, are you good?
1:25.6	I said, well, not sure exactly what you're talking about, but yeah, I'm good.
1:31.4	I'll say good.
1:32.7	You know, she says, so you're good.
1:34.6	I go, yeah, I'm good.
1:36.3	Yeah, I'm good.
1:37.5	I'm really good.
1:39.1	She said, great.
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