Category Archives: News & Commentary

Industry news roundup: Esquire, Chiat NY, Droga5, and more

July 30, 2010 – 10:07 am

. A quick look at what’s happening in our industry… . Alison Unterreiner has been promoted to photo editor at Esquire. (source: MediaBistro’s Revolving Door) . Lisa Topol, formerly at Wieden+Kennedy in New York, has been named creative director at Chiat NY. Sue Anderson, previously at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, also joins Chiat NY as a creative director. [...]

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“New York” mag names new photo director

July 28, 2010 – 3:46 pm

New York magazine has chosen a new photography director, reports The New York Observer: Jennifer Miller, the photography director of Cosmopolitan since 2009. Miller replaces Jody Quon, New York‘s photo director since 2004 and since April the creative director of W. Quon, who’d previously spent 10 years at The New York Times Magazine, set the [...]

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New mag celebrates analogue photography

July 27, 2010 – 9:15 am

Field Trip, a limited-edition magazine dedicated to showcasing analogue photography, has just made its debut, and it’s quite beautiful. “This first issue carries 52 pages of the blurred, overexposed and double-exposed images that digital cameras would let us delete or retake,” reports magculture.com, which is where I discovered Field Trip. “It’s a simple thing but [...]

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Stockland Martel welcomes Art Streiber

July 21, 2010 – 4:48 pm

. Art Streiber, one of the best-known, most-prolific portrait and entertainment photographers in the country, has just joined the Stockland Martel roster. And we’re thrilled to be representing him. Over the past 17 years, Art has been commissioned by every major American culture-oriented magazine, from Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone to Esquire, Wired, [...]

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Stephanie Menuez joins Menuez Archive Projects as Director of New Business & Marketing

July 7, 2010 – 9:00 am

Doug Menuez has lured his sister, longtime photo rep Stephanie Menuez, away from San Francisco to come to New York and join the team at Menuez Archive Projects as Director of New Business & Marketing. We’re super excited to have her on board. Here’s the official e-blast that Doug sent out this morning: . . [...]

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Craig Cutler, Jason Hindley, and Nadav Kander among the winners in Communication Arts’ photo annual

July 6, 2010 – 2:03 pm

Congratulations to Nadav, Jason, and Craig for being chosen for Communication Arts‘ 2010 Photography Annual! For this year’s venerable competition, the magazine selected 147 projects (by 135 photographers) to be featured in its July/August issue. If you’re a subscriber, you can view the winners’ work online. Here are Craig’s, Jason’s, and Nadav’s pages: . . [...]

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Here’s what you thought of Le Book Connections

July 1, 2010 – 8:00 am

The Le Book Connections event last month was a big success for us. In fact, when it was all over and we tallied how many people came and chatted with us at our booth, we were almost surprised by the size of the three-digit number. So to thank everyone who visited with us, we asked [...]

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John Midgley on the merits of taking lonely journeys, and how fine art shaped his photography and cinematography

June 21, 2010 – 10:58 am

John Midgley shoots a really wide variety of work—from impeccable car campaigns to mysterious fashion stories, plus celebrity portraits—and he works with his wife, the director Eva Midgley, as DP on her films. But no matter what the project, his affinity for fine art always seems to shine through. It’s just part of who he [...]

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“1o Major Photoshopping Scandals”

June 14, 2010 – 2:25 pm

We all know that a great deal of “editorial license” is used in Photoshopping images for magazines. But BusinessInsider.com’s article listing “10 Major Photoshopping Scandals” from the past 15 years is still pretty shocking. Katie Couric gets slenderized, Andy Roddick gets muscle packed on, Kate Winslet’s gams get thinner, Martha Stewart gets a new body, [...]

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Come see us at Le Book Connections

June 14, 2010 – 9:55 am

. . . Related: An interview with Le Book’s Michael Kazam . .

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