Someone mentioned to me the other day that Chris McPherson was red hot at the moment, so I thought I’d do what I normally would have done when working at a magazine and called Deborah Schwartz to get his book in for a look. Only this time I shot all the pages and posted them [...]
This very simple application allows you to build an iPhone website for your portfolio: SmallFolio.com
It’s a nifty solution and even though I work with the guys who made it I had nothing to do with it. Dang.
A blog post written by William Lobdell, an 18 year veteran of the Los Angeles Times entitled “42 Things I Know” should serve as a clue train manifesto for newspaper (cluetrain is here and here).
As a former media insider I know the feeling of “this shit is broke and you clowns have no clue how [...]
With the Olympics just around the corner I thought I’d check in with Simon Barnett of Newsweek, because he’s hired his very own dream team of photographers (Laforet, Miralle and Powell) to provide coverage of the event.
The Olympics start next week. Are you ready? Can you explain a little bit about how someone prepares to [...]
THIS IS URGENT - YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NEEDED
UPDATE (here).
The Senate is “hotlining” the Orphan Works Bill at this very minute, which means it could pass within the hour.
PLEASE CALL BOTH OF YOUR SENATORS IMMEDIATELY and ask them to either vote NO or put a hold on the Bill.
S. 2913: Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act [...]
HERE. Hot new trend I want to see explode.
Mygazines (here) looks to become a place where consumers can scan and share their favorite magazines, although it looks like there’s some professional scanning going on there. This would be so great if the magazine publishers had actually come up with it but sadly it will probably take this kind of content stealing for publishers [...]
I’m happy to announce the launch of my new website design company for photographers:
APhotoFolio.com
It was 6 months ago, when I had assumed that not working in New York meant not working in the photography industry, that I decided to pursue internet related projects, so that I could stay engaged. A Photo Folio joins the blog [...]
” …Young journalists are less willing to stay at newspapers because the papers are so slow to change their culture.
Newspapers have a history as top-down organizations where senior management huddles in conference rooms to decide what everyone else will do. Innovative ideas usually die on the vine or in bureaucratic red tape. And that’s frustrating [...]
Condé Nast will survive the shift of media online because for the most part they produce something that can’t be replicated online.
This is from a story in the NY Times last weekend:
“Condé also consistently sells more ads than its competitors and at higher prices, though some of its magazines make little or no profit. Even [...]
Elisabeth Biondi, visuals editor of the New Yorker magazine on photographer Pieter Hugo’s “The Hyena Men of Nigeria:”
‘Some people have said to me that Pieter’s subject is so dramatic that it would be hard to take a bad picture,’ says Biondi, ‘but, you know, a photographer chooses his subjects, and that, too, is an important [...]
A new book published in the UK and out here in September:
“The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art” (Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pages, $24.95)
“Willem de Kooning once said of the famed art dealer Leo Castelli: “You could give him two beer cans and he could sell them.”
Read more (here). Via, Gallery [...]
I moderated a panel on stock photography last Sunday and met some very talented young photo editors and learned a few things too. We had Leslie dela Vega the Photo Editor at TIME Magazine, Whitney Lawson, Photo Editor at Travel+Leisure, Michael Wichita, Photo Editor from AARP Bulletin and Ryan Schick the Photo Editor at Conde [...]
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Posted 22 July 2008
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Jonathan Saunders got after it and has a magazine available on MagCloud for anyone that wants to see how the printing looks (here).
Assigning photography to oversold stories is a very painful lesson to learn in this industry. All stories are sold to some extent, because no one is sitting around in a pitch meeting carefully outlining all the reasons why something might not work but some bear the onerous distinction of an idea that only looks good [...]
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Posted 17 July 2008
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The short list for the new $100,000 (!) Prix Pictet Award has been announced (here).
The Prix Pictet is a major new global prize in photography that focuses on perhaps the greatest single issue of the twenty-first century: sustainability.
I’m giving a talk at the Photoshelter event this Sunday (Shoot The Day) that I’m calling Editorial Boot Camp (press release here). I ‘m calling it that because I’m gonna teach photographers how to kick down the photo editors door, put the CFO in a sleeper hold and throw concussion grenades into the editors office… [...]
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Posted 16 July 2008
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If you want to see how someone perfectly balances the editorial and commercial worlds of photography and you’re majoring in a photo program in the final or next to final year then send Chris a resume and cover letter (chris(at)chrisbuck.com) because this is an incredible opportunity for aspiring photographers and photo editors to get their [...]
There’s so much great photography out there and sure, if the budget and pages are unlimited and you only answer to god then you can go about your merry way picking from the vast variety of photographers but, under a given set of circumstances where you want a specific genre and someone versed in a [...]
Telephone Prefix Locater (here).
Update: This one is even better (here).
I’m honestly stunned at how often I have to use this website to figure out where somebody lives.
UPDATED, Outdoor Sports Photographers List.
Some of these guys have moved on and most can shoot more sports than I’ve listed but all will blow your mind with crazy action or travel photos.
Jackson Hole, WY
Wade McKoy- Skiing
Andrew McGarry- Climbing
Chris Figenshau- Skiing
Greg Von Doersten- Climbing, Skiing
Greg Epstein- Skiing
Jimmy Chin- Climbing
Gabe Rogel- Climbing, Skiing
Jeff Diener- Outdoors
David Stubbs- Outdoors
Jonathan [...]
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Posted 14 July 2008
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Finding one is fairly easy, well, it’s not bad if you can’t find what you need on the traditional stock sites and you’ve run out or ideas where to look or, and this happens too, you’re sick of seeing the same handful of images for a package you run every single year and want something [...]
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Posted 10 July 2008
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Alec Soth wrote a seminal photography blog (here) then one day up and quit. And, I’m not talking “hey, I’m getting tired of this shit I think I’ll pull back a bit,” I’m talking Bermuda-triangle-sudden-radio-silence quit. I always figured the man’s got his reasons and we’ll leave it at that. But, after you’ve been on [...]
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Posted 09 July 2008
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Interesting development in the stock industry, Getty Images and Flickr are working together to establish the first commercial licensing opportunity for photo-enthusiasts in the Flickr community:
Images can be tremendously powerful. Images, empowered appropriately, can challenge, convince, delight and inspire. At Flickr, we think one of our most important missions is to enabe images to be [...]
Well, of course, everything is cool when the photographer and magazine are aligned because there are two goals with selecting a picture for a story. The first is running an image that serves the story. Something that is surprising, insightful and arresting, an attention grabber that will get the consumer to read the headline, then [...]
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Posted 08 July 2008
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