Salma Hayek by Matthew Rolston

. With the holidays upon us, The New York Times has been highlighting books of note that would be a pleasure to give or receive. This past weekend, the newspaper’s Book Review featured The New York Times Magazine Photographs, edited by director of photography Kathy Ryan. The hefty 447-page tome collects “three decades of virtuosic [...]

Sports Illustrated: “The Education of Walter Iooss Jr.”

. In its recent Sportsman/Sportswoman issue, Sports Illustrated published a huge feature—something like 12 pages—that explores “The Education of Walter Iooss Jr.” The piece is chock full of candid recollections and observations from the famed SI photog. Below are some highlights. You can read the story in its entirety here. . I won’t do negative [...]

Jorg Badura photographs runners for The New York Times Magazine

. What’s the correct way to run? In a feature for the issue of The New York Times Magazine that came out the day of the ING New York City Marathon, Christopher McDougall—author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen—takes on this much-debated question, [...]

Matthias Clamer and “The Machine That Makes You Musical”

. The New York Times Magazine yesterday published a feature on Smule, the California-based company that brought us Ocarina, an app that makes an iPhone into a flute, of sorts. The magazine commissioned Matthias Clamer to create a photo illustration (above) to go with the story. As writer Rob Walker notes in the piece, “the [...]

New work: Art Streiber’s Mike White portrait for the New York Times Magazine

Actor/director/writer/producer Mike White, whose many credits include writing School of Rock, has come back from a bit of a rocky time (specifically, a stay in a psychiatric hospital) with a project that’s generating a lot of buzz. Enlightened is a new series created by White for HBO. Starring Laura Dern, it’s about “an executive on [...]

25 vintage tennis shots by Walter Iooss

The U.S. Open started yesterday, inspiring Walter Iooss to pull together a selection of his tennis photos from the 1970s and ’80s. It’s especially fun to look at these images knowing that Andy Samberg impersonated some of these athletes for the New York Times Magazine cover story that Walter shot for Kathy Ryan, the magazine’s [...]

Walter Iooss shoots Andy Samberg as McEnroe, Agassi, and other tennis pros for NYT Magazine

. Yesterday Arem Duplessis, the design director of The New York Times Magazine, tweeted a sneak peek of this Sunday’s cover: a re-creation of a famous 1980 shot of John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg, with comedian Andy Samberg playing both men and photographed by Walter Iooss. Well, that image is

New York Times Magazine revisits 9 classic images from its archive

For a new online feature titled “Time Lapse,” the editors of The New York Times Magazine selected nine photos from the upcoming book The New York Times Magazine Photographs and had the subjects rephotographed, as well as interviewed. It’s fascinating to see how these people changed in the years since their photos were taken for [...]

This week’s highlights from other photo blogs

. Verve Photo, which is devoted to documentary photography, highlighted the image by young Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter, along with a story about it written by Depoorter. Here’s an excerpt: “I took this picture during my second trip through Russia in the winter of 2008/2009. I met the woman a few days before, in the [...]

Congratulations to the photography winners at last night’s National Magazine Awards

Last night was the big ASME ceremony here in New York announcing the winners of the 2011 National Magazine Awards. Some highlights: National Geographic was named Magazine of the Year; in the General Excellence category, Women’s Health won in Fashion, Service and Lifestyle Magazines, while Los Angeles emerged victorious among Special Interest Magazines and New [...]

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