Story over on The Online Photographer about those fantastic Stephen Mallon photos of the plane recovery out of the river where he’s been delivered a cease and desist from a law firm working for AIG to prevent him from publishing the images on his website.
thanks Tricia
Chicken Little, don your hardhat. Nudged by recession, doom has arrived.
It appears Annie is getting her money situation under control and has inked a very limited deal (here) to partner with Getty for what I can only assume are extremely lucrative assignments (is there any other reason to partner with Getty?). I have it on good authority that her representation and relationships at Art + Commerce and Contact Press Images remain unchanged. Thirty two years at Contact and over twenty five at A+C is not something you just sweep under the rug people.
It’s not that magazines are dying; it’s that magazines that were created solely for advertising or market-share purposes are. New magazine titles often fail from a combination of bad timing, bad thinking, and a bad choice of brands to extend. Put simply, there are too many mediocre magazines (as anyone who gazes at the newsstand at Barnes and Nobles would conclude).
via The Big Money.
…holding on to sales in a crammed market was hard work – hence the easy answer. The nipples. Just a few at first, in interviews with compliant celebrities, then an avalanche of areolae: lingerie shopping features, dirty calenders, free pornographic playing cards, illustrated erotic fiction collections.
It wasn’t just sexist, it was stupid – joining the younger lads’ titles in a suicide charge into grubby oblivion, to be munched up by the new weekly grot-mags Nuts and Zoo – and, of course, by the simple fact that exposed breasts are quite easy to find for free on the internet.
This semi-entertaining little video should elicit plenty of groans as Ashton Kutcher (Nikon spokesperson photographers love to hate) shoots the “behind the scenes” sausage making at a fragrance shoot with his wife Demi and photo duo Mert & Marcus (here).
People make way too much out of the digital versus film. The challenges in photography—focus, crop, shutter, aperture, and of course the biggest ones of all, the ones that really matter: what you actually point the camera at, and with what intelligence you use it… are all still there, completely unchanged.
Q&A with Paul Graham, PDN.
In the summer of 1972 I was still living in Vietnam. I was freelancing in what might have been referred to as the good ole days. Many magazines, not so many photographers, and if you found an editor who liked you, there were lots of possibilities for work.
I will never forget the moment when Nick [Ut] came out of the darkroom, holding that picture for the first time, a wet 5×7 print, in his hands. Ours were the first eyes to see it.
“Advertisers and subscriptions are not going to save your business,” Mr. Kaushik said. “Customers will.”
18. If you don’t understand the entire concept of indirect fire, do not go to a war zone… If you only remember one thing from this article, let this be it…….
50. Equation: the number of journalists covering any given conflict is directly proportional to the proximity of comfortable lodging and booze……
…People who should know better are being led to believe that more resolution, more funny glasses, and more frames-per-second will make movies better.
Changing my life plans from wanting to be a teacher with the secret hopes of becoming an artbro star to really wanting to become a teacher and participating in creating art as a side hobby whenever I feel like it. My new ideas on how I’ll be distributing my work will make “living off my art” and continuing my chic bohemian lifestyle an unrealistic feat.
I’ve been feeling a lil down about how disconnected art is from actual change in other people’s lives. Not wanting to pursue being an art star takes some really great burdens off me…
via Brad Troemel.
UPDATE: I’m now told from a very good source that this is not true.
…most of her financial woes stemmed from her inheritance of her long time partner, Susan Sontag’s, estate.
When Sontag died in 2004, she bequeathed several properties to Leibovitz, who was forced to pony up half of their value to keep them.
via AfterEllen.com. Thanks Ryan.
The only difference between artists making money and artists not making money is that the first group is better at business.
Do you want to know why there are so many crappy films in the world? Because there are so many great networkers who want to direct.
via Brazen Careerist
A magazine, as our former Editor In Chief, Sid Evans, used to say is like a living organism…it is always changing, should always be changing on some level.
–Amy Berkley, Photo Editor, Field and Stream Magazine
via Stone Thrower.
Off to do a photo shoot. It will be of me “fake” working on a computer at a diner. Test show tonight – so I’d rather really be working ah.. 7:28 AM Feb 17th from Tweetie
@jimmyfallon It’s just like when I go work out and then eat a whole box of mac and cheese. Also, is the shoot w/ entertainment weekly? 7:40 AM Feb 17th from web in reply to jimmyfallon
@hchermak yeah. This photographer is good. I’ve worked with him before. Talented dude. Jake Chessum. 8:02 AM Feb 17th from Tweetie in reply to hchermak
Annie Leibovitz borrows $15.5 million from a company called Art Capital Group and used her negatives as collateral (among other things).
via NYTimes.com.