Art Streiber on shooting Wired’s “Star Wars” cover. Plus: behind-the-scenes video

The new issue of Wired has Star Wars in its sights—and on its cover, which features a foldout portrait shot by our own Art Streiber. The story—introduced by comedian Chris Hardwick—details the many things (74, to be exact) that the next installment of the beloved sci-fi saga must include, alongside Art’s photos of Star Wars […]

Wired commissions Art Streiber to photograph “extreme entrepreneuer” Elon Musk, who dreams of building a colony on Mars

“When a man tells you about the time he planned to put a vegetable garden on Mars, you worry about his mental state. But if that same man has since launched multiple rockets that are actually capable of reaching Mars—sending them into orbit, Bond-style, from a tiny island in the Pacific—you need to find another […]

James Dyson by Matthias Clamer

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 […]

Art Streiber photographs the Muppets for Wired cover story

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 […]

Wired.com’s photo department wants to help you

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

. “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 […]

DigitalFusion on the making of Wired’s first motion cover

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. […]

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

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 […]

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

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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