This CP+B Creative Dressed Up as Albrecht Dürer for the Best Agency Headshot Ever

This CP+B Creative Dressed Up as Albrecht Dürer for the Best Agency Headshot Ever

This CP+B Creative Dressed Up as Albrecht Dürer for the Best Agency Headshot Ever. It’s a remarkable re-creation of the Dürer painting, from the hair and makeup right down to the custom-made coat. “I am a very huge Dürer fan on many levels,” he says. And once I became an art director, I really learned about his connection to art direction and commercial art—even the fact that the Art Directors Club uses his signature as their logo. I think I want to do this.” Swartz had worked previously with photographer Bruce DeBoer, who happened to be doing a series of photos that look like oil paintings. See a behind-the-scenes video from Raleigh here: “When I first sat down, it was like 8 in the morning, and Bruce said, ‘Yeah, we should be done around 12 and then we’ll shoot and be done,'” Swartz recalls. “I ended up with a giant mullet when it was done,” Swartz admits. So much effort went into producing the photo that you would expect it to get prime placement … somewhere. But in fact, the only place it was intended to be used was on CP+B internal directory widget, which employees use to connect with each other. “It was a huge effort for a very small thing.

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Dave Swartz’s passion project

Dave Swartz has long been obsessed with Albrecht Dürer, the giant of art history who was a painter and printmaker in the German Renaissance of the late 1400s and early 1500s.

So, when the time came for CP+B’s executive director of art direction and design to get a new agency headshot, he really went for it—embarking on what turned out to be a yearlong project to take a photograph that would look just like Dürer’s famous Christ-like oil painting self-portrait of 1500.

The result is pretty stunning. It’s a remarkable re-creation of the Dürer painting, from the hair and makeup right down to the custom-made coat. And the nerdiness of it is, frankly, quite charming.

Check out both images here:

Swartz tells AdFreak that he had the idea almost a year ago.

“I am a very huge Dürer fan on many levels,” he says. “He was somebody that, as a printmaker, I learned about. And once I became an art director, I really learned about his connection to art direction and commercial art—even the fact that the Art Directors Club uses his signature as their logo. He had this maniacal level of craft—just look at his woodcuts and his engravings. So, when it was time to think about a new headshot, it just hit me. I think I want to do this.”

Swartz had worked previously with photographer Bruce DeBoer, who happened to be doing a series of photos that look like oil paintings. The two quickly rallied…

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