“A fashion picture is a portrait, just as a portrait is a fashion picture.” - Irving Penn
November 26, 2008
I decided to venture onto the new LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google, to have a look around. So far about 2 million of the 10 million images in the archive have been uploaded…and soon they will all be available. What an amazing treasure trove of images!
So of course I typed in “Thanksgiving” and here […]
September 26, 2008
Numerous blogs have offered their takes on all the wonderful fall editorials and campaigns. And there are many!
Anyways, I haven’t done a Henry Wolf Would Be Proud in an extremely long time, so I thought this would be a good opportunity.
The story for Fall that stood out for me comes from across the pond…Portrait of a […]
September 22, 2008
I think just about everyone has chipped in their 2 cents on this little commotion caused by photographer Jill Greenberg and her commission by The Atlantic Monthly to shoot portraits of Senator John McCain.
A Photo Editor of course wrote a great bit of commentary and generated lots of comments, Conscientious had a very thoughtful and critical analysis of […]
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.
A Photo Editor has launched A Photo Folio, a website design company for photographers. Good on you Rob.
Photo Eye has a new site, a new online magazine, and of course a new […]
July 23, 2008
Since I haven’t written anything original in awhile I thought it’d be a good idea to link some of my favourite old posts. Is there such a thing as self-plagiarism? I have no idea.
Getting An Agent
Becoming An Agent
Portfolios part I + II
Your website may suck
The Producer of the Future.
I’m going to do some mass linkage soon. You’ve surely […]
June 23, 2008
The top 10 online fashion magazines from The Business of Fashion…
and a great post on the cross-breed of magazines and advertising services from the same…
and now we have Magcloud…true DIY magazine publishing from the good folks of Hewlett Packard. Pretty soon everyone will be starting their own Interview/Self-Service/i-D on their Macs.
Hey, maybe there’ll be an […]
Cathy Horyn’s article on the upcoming Vogue Italia featuring all black models…
and the follow up on her blog (which I found more interesting than the actual article)
Over at Starworks…1,2 great posts on Self-Service
The Guardian’s photography section always excels:
Slideshow and quotes from Elliott Erwitt
The evolution of photographers, from art to photojournalism to art…and New York street shooters […]
June 17, 2008
Lots of great interviews of late…in case you missed any.
You might have seen this by now, but the new power team at Interview on Charlie Rose, with Marc Jacobs. (Via NY Mag)
An interview with David Strettell, owner of Dashwood Books (Via Nutopia).
Over at the Women Management blog…an interview with Jennifer Starr, Casting Director extraordinaire…
and with […]
Continuing in the vein of new projects is the recently launched Dossier. Spearheading the project is Creative Director and photographer Skye Parrott and Editorial Director Katherine Krause.
Their list of contributors is already impressive, with the likes of David Armstrong, Melodie McDaniel, Marie Chaix, Mario Batali, Christopher Bollen…
All you young budding photographers may want to drop a […]
June 2, 2008
A little late (or very late) to this brouhaha I know, but I thought there were some excellent articles you may have missed out there about this whole affair.
Storm in a teacup, from the Guardian
The marketing of teens as celebrities and Annie Leibovitz’s ability to shoot the stars
Ah, the purity of the Disney brand. An […]
May 27, 2008
I went back and enjoyed these reviews…in case you couldn’t make it to everything.
Jackanory on Foto8
Conscientious 1, 2
Video coverage over at PDN
and looking ahead to 2009…