Summer News Roundup
Written on August 26, 2008
Caught up on my reading. Links I’ve been sitting on with a half-hearted attempt at organisation.
Gearing up for the shows? Chances are good Art+Commerce did the casting.
Photo Eye has a new site, a new online magazine, and of course a new blog.
Reading between the economic hemlines of September’s fashion magazines.
And maybe born out of these economic times…a new fashion magazine launch that has the best of international fashion…Distill Magazine. Via the Guardian.
More downturn misery over at WSJ.
Fascination profile of Si Newhouse + Conde Nast over at the New York Times.
selfservicemagazine coming soon…
An interview with Julia Restoin-Roitfeld on art directing her first advertising campaign. (Style File)
Amazing blog - Stylist Nicola Formichetti
and an interview with Katie Grand over at the Guardian.
The current state of art direction. (Creative Review)
Genius. Premiere Issues - an online archive of magazine 1st issues. (Via Search + Destroy)
Genius II. A Flickr group devoted to old issues of The Face. (via Magculture)
Genius III. Limited Edition photography for sale.
(Guy Bourdin)
Via The Moment, from the archives of Art+Commerce, a Steven Meisel/Guy Bourdin visual mash-up.
What once was old….Egoiste Magazine (via the Imagist)
(William Christenberry)
Don’t forget to read In Focus over at The Moment.
Brilliant interview with Juergen Teller at New York Magazine.
Olympics related fun - A new photobook on China over at PDN, Vincent Laforet’s blog for Newsweek (and his own wonderful blog here).
An interview with Fabien Baron over at Hintmag.
The weird science of stock photography.
and searching for God in stock photography (via ArtFagCity)
Eirily realistic depictions of war
Alix Dejean, The Eugene Atget of Harlem (except with people).
And Q. Sakamaki, who’s documented the East Village for the last 15 years. (Both via The New York Times.)
And over at Heather Morton’s blog, more art buyer inspiration.
More live video reviews…Leslie Burns-Dell’Acqua reviews Jamie Kripke’s work.
Via APE, “An Important Part of Having A Great Eye is Choosing Subjects.”
3 Glimpses of Photography’s Future over at Popphoto
Purple launches a Creative Agency (over at Supreme Being)
Why I love blogs - Rich Renaldi documents his trip to a jewel of a photography museum in South Africa, the Bensusan Museum of Photography.
For the voyeur in all of us…Todd Selby’s fantastic photos of the homes of creative people.
I feel really old. Over at The Cut, the 12-year old fashion blogger.
Following Testino - A 3-week diary over at The Independent.
A profile of Tim Barber over at The Moment.
(Berenice Abbott)
New York, in black and white, throughout the years.
The always excelllent photography section over at The Guardian.
Filed in: Fashion, Talent, Editorial, Word on the Street.
i just saw the interview with taller, tnx to this link. he is amazing! and so right. even when you just intro sentence he is right. but what amazes me how open he is. and his son is adorable, such a sweet baby. the entire set is simple but still surreal.