Back in the day, the time when I had my music company, I was married to the ground-breaking ace tv commercial producer, Vera Samama. She had gotten her start at Ally/Gargano and had worked with many of the top shops and agency creatives. Consistently, she praised one standout individual. He was the most intelligent, most talented and certainly the classiest of all those she admired. His name: Ralph Ammirati. I was lucky enough to work with him once on a BMW commercial and everything she said was true.


Having the opportunity to photograph him for The One Club this year was a true honor. And it's all still true. He still even drives very hot cars! To find out more -- including which hot cars -- check out Yash Egami's interview with Ralph in ONE, The Magazine HERE.

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The One Club held their annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony at New York’s Gotham Hall and quite the induction it was. The late Steve Jobs was the first client ever to honored for his contributions to advertising and Lee Clow accepted on his behalf with some great stories as well as probably that rare chance to experience the great “The Crazy Ones” ad with Job himself doing the voice over. Joe Pytkta, he (in)famous director noted for his work on Perrier, Nike (think Michael Jordan), with the Beatles and too many other incredible commercials to mention, was inducted; as well as legendary copywriter Paula Green (Avis: We Try Harder). Additionally, Rob Lawton was there as the first ever teacher to be inducted. In keep with tradition, many previous inductees, the greats of advertising were there.

It made for a VERY memorable -- if somewhat pressured -- formal portrait session.

Featured in the image above are (left to right seated) Ed McCabe, Paula Green, Ralph Ammirati and Amil Gargano; (left to right standing) Joe Pytka, George Lois, David Kennedy and Mike Hughes.

Tags: The One Club, People In Advertising, The One Club Hall of Fame, Portraits of People in Advertising, Ed McCabe, Paula Green, Ralph Ammirati, Amil Gargano, Joe Pytka, George Lois, David Kennedy, Mike Hughes