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Dear Young Photo Assistant, here’s your health care

A Photo Editor — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:07:19 +0000

The Health Care Reform Bill that just passed the House of Representatives would ALLOW YOU TO STAY ON YOUR PARENTS HEALTH INSURANCE UNTIL YOU ARE 27! Am I yelling this, yes I am. This is great news for photographers and assistants.

via Greg Ceo Blog.

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nothing has fundamentally changed

A Photo Editor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:04:41 +0000

People have two eyes, ears and one mouth, ten fingers and two feet. What different? The methods they use to express themselves and the calls on their attention. I urge you to run the other way if someone tries to tell you ‘people like free stuff’ is news. Did we not know this? Is this a shock? Surprising? Has this recently changed in some way?

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And here’s the dirty secret: it was easy

A Photo Editor — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:02:50 +0000

“Muhammad Ali made a hero out of every single journalist,” Leifer said. “Whether you were a writer, a photographer, a television commentator, you got to cover Ali and your boss thought you were a genius. The genius was really Ali.” Jordan was an equally photogenic subject for Iooss. “It was like traveling with a Biblical character with Michael because everyone in the world, at his peak, wanted to be with Michael and meet him in shake his hand,” Iooss said. “And he had everything, you know, for a photographer. It was like photographing a male model. I always compared him to Elle MacPherson” whom Iooss has also photographed for the S.I. swimsuit issue.

via Lens Blog – NYTimes.com.

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the internet isn’t killing anything

A Photo Editor — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:08:51 +0000

If someone offers to give you half of a record company, take it. They may be shrinking, but they’re still big.

russell davies via kottke.org.

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Newspapers aren’t doing as badly as you think

A Photo Editor — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:37:58 +0000

By the way, you can still make money publishing newspapers—even in a period when advertising has plummeted. Check out Gannett’s third-quarter earnings report. Its newspapers pulled in more than $100 million of operating income on revenues of $1.04 billion. In the first three quarters of 2009, advertising revenues were off 31.6 percent, but circulation revenues were off less than 5 percent, even though many of Gannett’s flagship papers lost subscribers.

via Daniel Gross – Slate Magazine.

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Todd Ruthven, AD, JWT Detroit, on automobile advertising

A Photo Editor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:51:35 +0000

CGI has definitely found its place in advertising but has not and WILL NOT replace actual photography. I believe that nothing can replace the spontaneity and “happy accidents” that can occur while actually shooting something.

[...] When you make something too perfect you run the risk of making it look fake. Using CGI requires the creative person to actually create flaws in the image. Therefore making it look believable.

via Greg Ceo Blog.

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An Interview with Gerhard Steidl

A Photo Editor — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:22:56 +0000

In the past, I had to take my own humble photography to printers, and I was always shocked to see that the printers ruined the images. Originally, I wanted to simply see my own photos printed well, instead of being angry about bad reproductions all the time – for which I then also had to pay.

via Conscientious.

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Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

A Photo Editor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:54:42 +0000

[Brin] has an innocent faith in the Internet and inadequate knowledge about how books are published.

Ken Auletta, via I Want Media talking about his new book on Google.

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The bigger the company, the bigger the blunder

A Photo Editor — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:13:42 +0000

This is why your company needs an experienced marketer on staff. Real marketing directors have an understanding of intellectual property laws. Photographs, fonts, illustrations, and other design elements found online are not free for you to use, especially for commercial purposes.

via Brand’s Anatomy.

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Interview: Damon Winter

A Photo Editor — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:37 +0000

So many of the photos look so similar and every time you press the shutter you’re thinking that this photo ever so slightly improves on the last image. And the next improves the last. And you never really know when they’ll stop improving. At some point you get the photo of the day – the photo you’re happy with.

via Too Much Chocolate.

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random links to random stories in the hopes that people will click

A Photo Editor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:07:44 +0000

“It is a fascinating fact is that if you go online and visit 200 web pages in one day – which is a simple task when you could email, blogs, youtube etc – you’ll see on average 490,000 words; War & Peace was only 460,000 words.”

via Media | guardian.co.uk.

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We get so fixated on our own shtick

A Photo Editor — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:54:31 +0000

A very respected journalist once told me, “I’m always telling students, if you want to be a journalist, for God’s sake don’t be a Journalism Major. Study something else, like The Classics or Architecture. That means when you start looking for work, you’ll be bringing something to the table besides ‘Shop Talk’.”

via Gapingvoid.

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Some young photographers who are content providers are not content consumers

A Photo Editor — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:30:14 +0000

“If you won’t pay to see someone else’s work, why do you expect people to pay to see your work?” ”How do you expect to make a living as a photojournalist?” ”Who is your audience?”

via Greg Ceo Blog.

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500,000 loyal, engaged users who want quality, long form journalism

A Photo Editor — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:43:47 +0000

More sophisticated ways of measuring usership and engagement will change focus from mass audience, Plotz believes, and that will make journalism better. Raw numbers create “pressure to produce one kind of story” that will draw hits. New metrics of engagement and behavior offer a “tremendous opportunity for Web journalism to escape the traffic” trap. He believes that will liberate Slate to “make a magazine that recognizes those dedicated readers.”

via Knight Digital Media Center.

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it’s not news, and it’s not hard to do, and it’s not hard to replace

A Photo Editor — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:47:02 +0000

No one surveying the changes the internet is bringing to the newspaper business is saying “My God, who will tell me about Big 12 football! Where will I find a recipe for spicy chicken wings!”

via Clay Shirky.

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David Alan Harvey on Launching a Photo-j Magazine

A Photo Editor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:37:57 +0000

“You’ve got to have something to say. It could be conceptual, or you can try to save the world as a photojournalist. But you can’t just be a technician. Everybody’s a technician. You’ve got to have an idea.”

via PDN.

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Emailers are now little better then spam

A Photo Editor — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:26:11 +0000

While emailers sounded like a good idea several years ago, they are now little better then spam. Most of the work I get is not appropriate to any need I might possibly have, and lots of it just isn’t good at all. Plus, if the image isn’t displaying in my email window and fast, I’m on to the next one. On the other hand, when I receive a printed promo, at the very least, I look at the image(s). I also notice your attention to detail in your paper and design choice. Most often, email promos feel templated and generic, hence the agency opt-outs.

via HeatherMortonArt buyer.

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He who wishes to become a painter first must cut out his tongue

A Photo Editor — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:32:48 +0000

We must resist academia as artists. We really must. When Matisse was near death a young man visited him and as he turned to leave Matisse said, “Remember one thing: guard your naiveté. Some day young man, that’s going to be all you’ve got. And now I’m packing my bags for the next world.”

–Robert Bergman

via The Brooklyn Rail.

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Every Dumbass With A Camera

A Photo Editor — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:42:52 +0000

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the secret of being a successful cartoonist

A Photo Editor — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:11:02 +0000

“Continuity,” he said. “Anyone can draw a good cartoon… ONCE. But not everyone can draw a good cartoon, every day, day-in-day-out. It’s something you have to work VERY HARD at for many years before you even get close…”

– Hugh Dodd

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do they really need to worry about the customer experience?

A Photo Editor — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:09:07 +0000

There are some customer-focused older companies out there, but they’re rare. The traditional mode of business for the past 100 years has been customer-hostile, and it’s really tough for a company to “turn the aircraft carrier around” to work in a different way. It will happen, though, and when it does, you’ll see: an older company “gets religion,” gradually becomes customer-centric, and then grows to dominate its competitors like never before in its history.

via Good Experience.

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For Only $5 Per Month, You Can Help…

A Photo Editor — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:10:58 +0000

The Onion Sunday Magazine

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Condé closes Gourmet and others

A Photo Editor — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:47:37 +0000

Condé Nast plans to announce this morning that it will close Gourmet magazine, a magazine of almost biblical status in the food world; it has been published since December 1940.

In addition to Gourmet… it will also close Cookie, Modern Bride, and Elegant Bride.

via Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com.

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E-blasts are out, and direct mail is back in

A Photo Editor — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:58:51 +0000

Well, that’s how the panelists first explained their take on the efficacy of email marketing. They eventually acknowledged that they all still send out e-blasts, but they weren’t very enthusiastic about them as a marketing tool. Everyone talked about how art buyers and creatives spend half their day just deleting emails from their inbox without reading them because they are overwhelmed. A print piece that shows up in their stack of snail mail, on the other hand, at least guarantees that the recipient will see the image and the name.

via Stockland Martel blog.

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The history of a great deal of twentieth century art could be told as a history of theft

A Photo Editor — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:03:25 +0000

Armand Bartos Fine Art’s latest show is focused on celebrating that history of the rip-off, showing art works next to the pieces from which artists brazenly stole their ideas.

via ARTINFO.com.

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Here is how I define success

A Photo Editor — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:04:06 +0000

A successful artist is a person who is able to create something that manifests their truth…a perception that they feel they need to bring to the world. A successful creative person is someone who continues to create no matter what happens. I respect many artists. They are not all extremely successful in the art market, or in the art status structure. Some are, and some aren’t. Some of the ones I respect have been overlooked. But I still consider them to be successful, because they have succeeded to give the world their vision, even though the world does not always acknowledge their worth…In other words, I define a successful career as much more than just external validation.

– Jan Harrison

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I am really ambivalent about theory, I think it is important to learn to think, to express yourself…

A Photo Editor — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:17:13 +0000

Teaching is about creating awareness, there is an analogy with Buddhism and meditation and really doing art is about trying to understand life.

–Peter Bialobrzeski

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How to Compete

A Photo Editor — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:56:44 +0000

It’s a dodgy game to compete on price. It’s always a race to the bottom. It’s never fun to compete by name-calling or bragging over your competitors. Instead, really earn it with us by competing in ways that will empower both you and us.

via How to Compete.

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Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful People With Talent

A Photo Editor — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:46:11 +0000

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.– Calvin Coolidge

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Hiroshi Sugimoto Shout Out at U2 Concert

A Photo Editor — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:49:43 +0000

…when was the last time the biggest rock star on the planet interrupted one of his signature songs in a stadium full of screaming people to give a shout out to a fine art photographer? There can’t be any equivalent moment in the entire history of photography.

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A Photo Editor » Blog News

Dear Young Photo Assistant, here’s your health care

nothing has fundamentally changed

And here’s the dirty secret: it was easy

the internet isn’t killing anything

Newspapers aren’t doing as badly as you think

Todd Ruthven, AD, JWT Detroit, on automobile advertising

An Interview with Gerhard Steidl

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

The bigger the company, the bigger the blunder

Interview: Damon Winter

random links to random stories in the hopes that people will click

We get so fixa­ted on our own shtick

Some young photographers who are content providers are not content consumers

500,000 loyal, engaged users who want quality, long form journalism

it’s not news, and it’s not hard to do, and it’s not hard to replace

David Alan Harvey on Launching a Photo-j Magazine

Emailers are now little better then spam

He who wishes to become a painter first must cut out his tongue

Every Dumbass With A Camera

the sec­ret of being a suc­cess­ful car­too­nist

do they really need to worry about the customer experience?

For Only $5 Per Month, You Can Help…

Condé closes Gourmet and others

E-blasts are out, and direct mail is back in

The history of a great deal of twentieth century art could be told as a history of theft

Here is how I define success

I am really ambivalent about theory, I think it is important to learn to think, to express yourself…

How to Compete

Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful People With Talent

Hiroshi Sugimoto Shout Out at U2 Concert

We get so fixated on our own shtick

the secret of being a successful cartoonist