LOOK3 will be held June 11-13 in Charlottesville, VA. The 3 featured artists for the 2009 festival are: Gilles Peress, Martin Parr, and Sylvia Plachy. Other photographers scheduled for participation are: Simon Bruty, Platon, Paolo Pellegrin, Tom Mangelsen, David Alan Harvey, James Nachtwey, Nina Berman, Larry Fink, Eugene Richards, Maggie Steber and Scott Thode.
More info at http://www.look3.org.
I probably could have made a nice living taking variations on the same photos over and over, but truthfully that wasn’t very interesting or challenging to me, from a creative point of view. At the same time, the industry was changing. I felt the focus was becoming more on style over substance – image, fashion, high-concept shoots. Celebrity culture. The makeup and clothing were the stars, not the artists. Some of my photo sessions evolved into huge productions, involving a dozen people on a sound stage. Once the novelty wore off, this didn’t interest me. In fact, towards the end I refused to shoot anyone unless it was just one-on-one – just me and them and maybe one assistant – preferably in natural light, as intimately as possible.
From a 3 part interview with Laura Levine over on Rock Critics (here).
Not all that surprising given the state of media that Esquire decided to put an advertisement on the cover.
I’m not so sure it’s a big deal, 99% or covers are crap designed to sell on the newsstand anyway.
Story over on Mixed Media (here).
This has to be the worst idea ever:
“The Printed Blog, a Chicago start-up, plans to reprint blog posts on regular paper, surrounded by local ads, and distribute the publications free in big cities.”
Story on the NYTimes (here).
“When I’m asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment.”
— Annie Leibovitz
As a new President enters the White House, a new photo policy seem to emerge. Obama, or his administration, has broken tradition by making the first images of him in the Oval Office a handout.
Over on Bohemian (here). I think it’s a very important point he’s making.
The New York Times has $46 million in cash and a total debt load of $1.1 billion. Gulp.
Billionaire Carlos Slim has given the cash-strapped New York Times $250 million.
Via, Media Memo.
The picture by Janis Krums of the airplane in the Hudson river (here) is remarkable because there’s nothing like being there first with a camera/phone. The AP should buy Twitter and Twit Pic because they’re proving to be the place where news breaks first.
Photo-eye has a cool interactive list where you can checkout top 10 lists from 17 different people (here) which I discovered on the blog MAO (Modern Art Obsession) and that’s where I discovered the best name I’ve ever seen for a book: “God Spoiled a Perfect Asshole When He Put Teeth in Yer Mouth.” by Dash Snow. Peres Projects.
“I always feel as though there’s supposed to be some deeper meaning behind my pictures, a meaning other than ‘Something inside me connected with what I saw in front of me, so I pulled out my camera and took a picture.’ That does not seem to fly as an artist statement. Why, I’m not sure.”
Emily Shur (here).
Reminds me of a favorite photography quote:
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.” – Garry Winogrand
Depiction of a copyrighted work in the background of an image may not be infringement as this court case against Paramount Pictures shows (here).
Chin said that, under the case law, “The observability of the copyrighted work is critical, and courts will consider the length of time the copyrighted work is observable as well as factors such as focus, lighting, camera angles and prominence.”
Magazines: We estimate magazine advertising revenue to decrease 15.0% in 2009 (vs. our prior down 12.5% estimate) and decline a further 5.0% in 2010.
Analysts at Barclays via Media Memo (here).
Andrew talks to Ben about shooting all of New York Magazine’s, Look in a video of them flipping through the magazine. See it (here).
“I can say that I am very much an experiential learner. This means that I don’t always see things clearly until I’m at a breaking point and physically in front of what it is I am seeing. ”
Read it all (here).
I think it’s fairly common practice now when you’re thinking about doing business with a company to type their name and the word sucks into google to see what results come up.
Here’s a blog someone setup to let people know about a photographer who appears to have been screwed over by an interactive agency:
The first I’ve seen anyway since they released all their images online with google (here).
I was following a link about 70’s Rock Musicians and Their Parent’s Homes (here then here) to see who the photographer was and ended up at Apartment Therapy (here) where it looks like all the advertising on the site got the attention of the Life magazine archive where the images were taken from.