Comments on: Jeff Riedel’s Massive GQ Photo Essay

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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:21:24 +0000

[...] for GQ magazine which you can read more about at “A Photo Editor’s” blog here. Great to see a piece like that in these days of cutbacks and shrinking [...]

By: another producer

another producer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:12:03 +0000

@A Photo Editor,

as a producer who has worked on something of this scale in the past I can say that a “fixer” although a nice asset doesn’t do much other than make the contacts with the subjects. similar to a publicist they have the “in” at the campaign. All of the travel, EQ, dealing with fixers, and back end minutiae probably fell on GQ photo dept. Kudos to them.

By: JOCKJAMS

JOCKJAMS — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:02:23 +0000

nice teeth pulling… i mean page turning, sounds like fingers on a blackboard

By: stephen edgar

stephen edgar — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:19:45 +0000

Wow. I love this! It’s so nice to read about Riedel’s use of film. I’ve got a little gig tomorrow that I’m considering breaking out the stock for because of this. I’d love to hear more about ‘the fixer’ -oh the luxury! Every TIME I’ve had someone doing this job for me (usually some PR person) there’re always f-ups because he or she has NO idea about the photographic process. Often feel like I should be more proactive in the organization of the details -but there are only 24 hours in the day! Is it considered bad form to supply some kind of ‘to-do list’ or manifesto to these ‘fixer wannabes’?
Thanks again for your work on the blog too! I’m new here.
cheers
s

By: Erik Dungan

Erik Dungan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:26:09 +0000

I just went out and bought the mag tonight. Awesome images.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:26:48 +0000

Very nice page flipping action !

By: Terence Patrick

Terence Patrick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:03:56 +0000

I was really happy to see a portfolio of this magnitude, especially knowing what Conde Nast is going through. That they stuck with their original plan of using 30 edit pages over the course of nine months is amazing. Kudos to the GQ team and especially to Jeff Riedel for pulling it off with a great touch.

By: A Photo Editor

A Photo Editor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:37:12 +0000

@erosenb,
He mentioned a political fixer (hadn’t heard of such a thing before) in D.C. who works for the Post and Newsweek who wrangled all the politicians and made it happen.

By: gm

gm — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:23:41 +0000

Splendid, and thanks for honesty in the interview!!!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:01:25 +0000

Jeff’s work is consistently very good. I’m glad he got such an assignment and I hope it’s the start of a trend in the industry. $15k is peanuts as an expense in the big picture of a magazine such as GQ.

(Go Socialism!)

By: Kenneth Jarecke

Kenneth Jarecke — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:23:23 +0000

A wonderful piece. I was so happy to see it published. Congratulations to all. A real accomplishment.

By: erosenb

erosenb — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:44:16 +0000

As a producer myself, I can’t help but think that the support staff putting this together must have had their work cut out for them. The logistics of setting up that many shoots and sending Jeff to all of them is mind-boggling. I’d be interested to hear more about that.

By: Jim Newberry

Jim Newberry — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:45:32 +0000

Awesome. I’ll take next month’s 32 page assignment, please.

By: btezra

btezra — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:45:17 +0000

XLNT interview, and I found his insights about Jerome Corsi quite enjoyable…Corsi is the epitome of the word “nonfactual” and “slimeball”

I am looking forward to picking up a copy of GQ to view the photo essay, the online version is not the best delivery here of Jeff Riedel’s work.

By: doug

doug — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:31:43 +0000

I can’t remember the last time I bought gq I’ll be getting this one. Thanks for the great interview.

By: A Photo Editor

A Photo Editor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:48:08 +0000

@Marshall,
I’d say a minimum of $15,000 based on conservative space rates.

By: GW

GW — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:44:51 +0000

Great work, if you can get it : ) We blogged about your post, since we tend to lean a tad left too : ) The Locust Fork Journal

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Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:36:11 +0000

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By: Marshall

Marshall — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:28:57 +0000

I guess I should go pick up the issue. It does indeed look like shit online.

I think the mention of portfolios looking different from monitor-to-monitor is huge. I’ve got two sitting right here. Love the colors/contrast in my right monitor, love them half as much in the left. And they’re the same make and model. Just another reason I’ll send in those 5×7 cards before I’ll send in a website link.

I was surprised to hear he shot film. Another lost web translation. Bet these are beauties in person.

Thanks so much for the coverage. Ballpark estimate what one gets paid for something like this?

By: Rich Fleischman

Rich Fleischman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:21:51 +0000

That was a great interview (and thanks for posting the video). I’m certainly buying that issue now. I would have loved to have heard his thought’s on Greenberg’s McCain bait & switch.