Still Images In Great Advertising- Shawn Michienzi
Still Images In Great Advertising, is a column where Suzanne Sease discovers great advertising images and then speaks with the photographers about it. I have known Shawn Michienzi for decades throughout my career as an art buyer. I never had the honor to work with him but came close once. Shawn is a pure advertising photographer-he...
Chances Are, You Suck
There’s nothing wrong with not being any good at photography. Everybody started out bad and none of us does all aspects of it well. But it’s a crying shame to want to be good at it, to spend time and money trying to be good at it, and not getting any better. This isn’t like...
The Impact Of Conservation Photography – Garth Lenz
by Grayson Schaffer On January 18 the Obama administration blocked the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would’ve moved bitumen and crude oil from the tar sands region of northern Alberta to refineries in Illinois, Nebraska, and eventually the Texas Gulf Coast. The pipeline’s advocates claim that it would create 20,000 new jobs and decrease America’s...
The Daily Edit – Monday 2.6.12
(click images to make bigger) Bike Magazine Photo Editor: David Reddick Assistant Photo Editor: Anthony Smith Art Director: Shaun N. Bernadou Photographer: Dan Barham Note: Content for The Daily Edit is found on the newsstands. Submissions are not accepted --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking to buy a new website? A Photo Folio is a website design company created...
This Week In Photography Books – Vivian Maier
by Jonathan Blaustein Unless you’ve been locked away in a pretend spaceship, like those Russian astronauts, you’ve likely heard the name Vivian Maier in the last year or so. It would be almost impossible to have avoided her name entirely, though you might not be exactly sure who she is/was, or why her name stuck...
The Daily Edit – Friday 2.3.12
(click images to make bigger) Backpacker Creative Director: Matthew Bates Senior Associate Photo Editor: Genny Fullerton Art Director: Jacqueline McCaffery Photographer: Jason Florio Note: Content for The Daily Edit is found on the newsstands. Submissions are not accepted Heidi: What is the biggest challenge in doing an assignment like this? Jason: For me the...
Still Images In Great Advertising – Jeremy & Claire Weiss
Still Images In Great Advertising, is a column where Suzanne Sease discovers great advertising images and then speaks with the photographers about it. I reached out to Day 19 (Jeremy & Claire Weiss) after seeing this great Converse campaign, because they seem to work well as a husband and wife team. Here is our conversation about how...
Digital Has Definitely Made My Life Easier
One thing I can say is that having every photographer’s website at my fingertips is wonderful. We have many shoots all around the country in small towns. The Internet is the only hope I have in finding photographers in these areas of the country. There’s also nothing that impresses me more than when I meet...
The Daily Edit – Thursday 2.2.12
(click images to make bigger) National Geographic Creative Director: Bill Marr Deputy Creative Director: Kaitlin M. Yarnall Design Director: David C. Whitmore Art Director: Juan Velasco Deputy Photography Director: Ken Geiger Photographer: Martin Schoeller Note: Content for The Daily Edit is found on the newsstands. Submissions are not accepted --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking to buy a new...
Never Explain Your Work
I asked Ethan Levitas to tell us a little more about the picture he took for GQ that we featured on The Daily Edit last week. Here’s his response: Jean-Jacques Naudet, the legendary editor in chief (’76-’88) of French Photo, who looks like a leading man and lives like a gentleman – and who is...
The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager
…[newspapers'] race for added sales is reflected editorially in the production of journals which more and more represent, not an editor’s notion of a good paper, but a circulation manager’s notion of a good seller.” via Brain Pickings. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking to buy a new website? A Photo Folio is a website design company created by...
The Daily Edit – Wednesday 2.1.12
(click images to make bigger) Golf Digest Creative Director: Ken DeLago Director of Photography: Christian Iooss Art Director: Tim Oliver Associate Art Directors: Riva Schwartz, Doug Wheeler Photographer: Peter Schafrick Note: Content for The Daily Edit is found on the newsstands. Submissions are not accepted Heidi: Was that commissioned or existing work? Peter: The piece...
