I’ve been invited by Everard Williams of Art Center College of Design to join Heidi Volpe, former Art Director at the LA Times Magazine for a lecture in LA next Tuesday evening called Shooting Editorial.
We’re going to talk about shooting for magazines and spend the first part discussing what goes on inside a magazine, how [...]
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A Photo Folio
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My new company, APhotoFolio.com builds portfolio websites for photographers. Have a look (here). Photo Blogs
FotoWeek DCThe week of November 15-22, 2008 will mark the launch of FotoWeek DC, the first annual gathering of a diverse and wide-ranging photography community in the nation’s capital. http://www.fotoweekdc.org/
A Painting A DayAbbey Ryan paints a small oil painting a day, posts them on her blog (here), then sells them on ebay. She's been doing it for over a year. Genius. Any photographers doing this yet?
Who Does She Think She Is?Very intriguing documentary on women artists found over on Amy Stein's blog (here).
AdAge Magazine Of The Year: The EconomistA sign of the times?
From the story in AdAge (here):
"It continues to send reporters to overseas bureaus. It covers seething conflicts in places like Russia and Georgia before they become hot wars. It follows the trends that increasingly shape life in the U.S. before Americans declare them important."
Art For Obama On SaleCheck it out: http://www.artforobama.net/
There's some beautiful work available.
Richard Misrach Talks About On The BeachArtist talk at The Art Institute of Chicago (here).
The fate of the Art Market and Wall Street are so closely linkedKathy Fuld, the art-collecting wife of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld, is selling a $20 million set of rare Abstract Expressionist drawings at a November auction, according to two art dealers.
Via, MAO.
Photographers Discuss Orphan Works on PodcastPhotographer Jim Goldstein has a discussion about Orphan Works with fellow photographers Chase Jarvis, Dan Heller and John Harrington (here).
Time Inc. and Getty Images Jointly Launch LIFE.comPress Release: "LIFE.com will offer access to thousands of new photographs from Getty Images’ award-winning photographers, including today’s news, entertainment, sports, celebrities, travel, animals and many others. Consumers will also have access to millions of images from LIFE magazine, many of which have never been seen by the public."
"When the site launches in early 2009, consumers will be able to interact intimately with imagery, including printing select photos, sharing photos with friends and family, playing the popular LIFE Picture Puzzle, creating collections of photos around special interests and purchasing photo albums of user-made collections. Through the site, consumers can view the photos the world is talking about by searching for recently added photos or viewing photos by topic. Searching for and viewing images on the site will be absolutely free."
Thanks Allison.
Editorial Design BlogMark Porter creative director of The Guardian, has a blog on editorial design (here) with interesting commentary on the The Independent and wsj.com redesigns. He claims in his bio that, "the 2005 redesign which I was responsible for is widely acknowledged as the most important newspaper design project of the last 20 years." I was unaware.
