James Dyson by Matthias Clamer

November 8, 2011 – 9:26 am

Wired U.K. commissioned Matthias Clamer to photograph Sir James Dyson, the man who revolutionized the vacuum cleaner, for the cover of its November issue… . . The magazine’s website features a gallery of portraits from Matthias’ shoot. Click here or on the image below for a look. And to read “The Seventh Disruption: How James [...]

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Art Streiber photographs the Muppets for Wired cover story

October 31, 2011 – 11:49 am

How can science help you? The cover story of Wired‘s November issue has some suggestions, and the editors enlisted the Muppets to present them—and got Art Streiber, who worked with photo editor Carolyn Rauch, to photograph the whole shebang. Art also shot actor Jason Segel for a feature on his quest to bring the Muppets [...]

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Wired.com’s photo department wants to help you

June 30, 2011 – 12:57 pm

Raw File, the photo blog of Wired magazine, has just launched a series of posts called “Assignment Wired,” in which Wired.com’s photo department will be giving out assignments and posting and critiquing selected submissions at the blog. “You’ll learn firsthand what it’s like to be on assignment for Wired.com,” according to Raw File, which describes [...]

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What creatives want in a stills-and-motion photog. Plus: John Midgley on shooting motion for Wired.

April 8, 2011 – 8:10 am

If you’re a photographer interested in marketing your motion work, check out the May issue of PDN. For the feature “How Creatives Hire Photographers for Video Assignments,” PDN editor Holly Hughes and executive editor David Walker interviewed art directors and photo editors about what they look for when considering someone for a stills-and-motion gig. Among [...]

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UPDATED: Interview with Diederik Meijer, editor of new iPad photo magazine “50pm”

March 2, 2011 – 8:16 am

. “This is what 50pm stands for: independent, unsubsidized, no corporate sponsorships, just a small team sharing our passion for photography with people around the globe.” —Diederik Meijer, editor in chief, 50pm . It’s one thing to complain that the ubiquity of imagery has eroded the value of photography. It’s quite another to try to [...]

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DigitalFusion on the making of Wired’s first motion cover

September 3, 2010 – 8:33 am

For the third and final installment of my series of interviews looking at the making of Wired’s September 2010 motion cover, I talked with Hugh Milstein and Tim Wilcox of the LA-based postproduction company DigitalFusion, who worked with Scott Dadich, Wired’s creative director, and Carolyn Rauch, Wired’s photo editor, on translating Scott’s design into motion. [...]

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DP and editor Adam Grossman on Wired’s first motion cover

September 1, 2010 – 8:25 am

On Monday, I posted an interview with Art Streiber about shooting Wired’s first motion cover (for the September 2010 issue). Today, Adam Grossman of Good Dog Media, who served as DP and editor on the project, talks about some of the technical aspects, his views on the role of motion in the photography industry, and [...]

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Art Streiber on shooting Wired mag’s first motion cover for the iPad

August 30, 2010 – 9:18 am

Wired has just debuted its first iPad motion cover—which is also the first motion cover in magazine history—shot by our very own Art Streiber. Unlike the print edition of the September issue, whose image-free cover bears the provocative announcement “The Web Is Dead,” the app is themed “The Future of Television” and features an exclusive [...]

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New work: John Midgley shoots “the world’s most ingenious thief” for Wired

May 12, 2010 – 10:25 am

John photographed a feature story for the April issue of Wired on a really unusual character: Gerald Blanchard, who—as the magazine describes him—was a sort of “criminal Rain Man” who “possessed a savantlike ability to exploit security flaws.” The story, written by Joshua Bearman and titled “Art of the Steal: On the Trail of the [...]

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Like to photograph stripes? This contest is for you.

January 15, 2010 – 10:39 am

. Wired, which Adweek has named Magazine of the Decade (congratulations, Wired!), is sponsoring a photo contest inspired by the signature stripes on the mag’s spine. What do you need to do? Take a great stripe-y photo (see examples, courtesy of Wired, below). And submit it by midnight tonight, Pacific time. For more on the [...]

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