CONTRIBUTORS

tim boole

Photographer Tim Boole graduated from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., and began his career assisting top L.A. album cover photographer David Alexander in 1978. But his real start in photography began when he decided to shoot pictures of his friends surfing at breaks off the California coast in 1975.

Tim migrated to Dallas in 1980. He plunged wholeheartedly into the digital revolution early on and now focuses on fashion photography. Producing portfolios of digital prints soon led to work for clients from Salem Cigarettes to D Magazine. He also teaches Photoshop part-time at Richland College.

Tim’s eye for lighting and design are the basis for his fashion work, and his creativity has led to advertising, portrait, and even still-life projects. His clients include American Airlines, Coors, Mary Kay Cosmetics, JCPenney, Texas Monthly, and Rolling Stone.

This month, Tim is the man behind the Dallas Look (p. 72) and the at-home shots with Anthony Mark Hankins (p. 84).

john bloom

John Bloom, actor, comedian, and satirist, is best known for his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, a Texas wiseacre who can be seen on TNT every Saturday night as the cult film historian of Monster Vision. Joe Bob’s fans run the gamut from middle America to Martin Scorsese, who cast Kim opposite Robert De Niro in Casino. John is presently putting the finishing touches on his screenplay, The Joe Bob Story, which has been described as a country/western This is Spinal Tap.

John has written six books of humor, criticism, and journalism, the most recent of which is Iron>Joe Bob, Joe Bob’s long-awaited volurne on relationships and the “assorted sexes.” Under the Joe Bob Briggs byline, John also writes a nationally syndicated column distributed by The New York Tunes Syndicate.

John was bom in Dallas, grew up in Little Rock, attended Vanderbilt University, and now lives in New York City. His work for us this month, “The Accidental Movie Star,” appears on p. 64.

danny turner

DANNY TURNER, A GRADUATE OF EAST Texas State University, is an editorial and advertising photographer who specializes in shooting people on location. His photographs have appeared in Texas Monthly, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN Magazine, and Vanity Fair, l among others. His advertising clients include Ford Motor Company, Nations Bank, American Airlines, AmeriServe, Neiman Marcus. Comerica Bank, HBO, and Accutrade. He has also spoken to American Society of Magazine Photographers groups in Kansas City and Austin. This month, Danny’s work complements John Bloom’s text in “The Accidental Movie Star” on p. 64.

lee b. emmert

Lee B. Emmert has been a Dallas advertising and editorial photographer for the past three years, for which he has traveled to 18 countries and 23 states. Lee moved to the area from Washington, D.C., where he had been working as a photographer and completing postgraduate study at the Corcoran Museum of Art. He attended Millsaps College as an undergraduate, where he received degrees in both photography and philosophy.

This month, Lee highlights Dallas-area schools in our feature about the best public high schools on p. 60.