Category Archives: News & Commentary

Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s John Kieselhorst on Nadav Kander and the making of their cheeky Monte Carlo campaign

June 10, 2010 – 2:35 pm

When PDN selected this image shot by Nadav Kander… . . for its Photo Annual 2010, I thought it’d be interesting to get the story behind (no pun intended!) the campaign. So I sent John Kieselhorst—he’s now associate creative director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder but worked on these ads when he was [...]

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An interview with Le Book’s Michael Kazam

June 9, 2010 – 10:31 am

With Le Book Connections—a trade show for “all professionals who commission talent”—coming up in New York next week, it seemed like a good time to check in with Michael Kazam, the international development director of Le Book (which he cofounded with Veronique Kolasa). Does he see signs of hope after a couple of lean years [...]

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More on photojournalism and Photoshop

June 7, 2010 – 1:35 pm

Back in April, Stella Kramer stirred people up with her guest column on Adobe CS5‘s Content-Aware Fill feature, which enables users to alter images more easily than ever before. The issue was not that the feature itself didn’t work well. “Think healing or cloning, but on steroids!” enthused PC Magazine after previewing Content-Aware Fill. “If [...]

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Maureen Martel: “If I don’t know who you are by looking at your portfolio, then your book is not doing its job.”

June 3, 2010 – 8:51 am

Ali Dent, who lives in Australia and writes the blog A Sydney Art Buyer, contacted me a while back about the Stockland Martel blog, which turned into an occasional email correspondence, which turned into her doing a sort of free-ranging email interview with Maureen. The interview just went live on Ali’s blog. A couple of [...]

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7 pro photogs on shooting motion

June 2, 2010 – 10:01 am

The recently redesigned website of the British Journal of Photography features interviews with seven professional photographers who also shoot motion. It’s a great read, and it also underscores the fundamental fact that technical virtuosity will get you only so far. “They have to hit a nerve, and make an impact with their film in the [...]

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EPSN The Magazine publishes first-ever travel issue

May 28, 2010 – 11:20 am

Though the focus in publishing these days is on ways to use technology like the iPad and the Web to keep print alive (here’s a recent article on Newsweek‘s efforts along these lines), some publishers are using low-tech, time-tested strategies to boost their ad pages. Like appealing to nonendemic advertisers. That, at least, is what [...]

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The New York Photo Festival in 3D

May 26, 2010 – 7:45 am

I got an email recently from one Martin Lenclos, who creates 3D online experiences. The New York Photo Festival, which took over DUMBO for four days earlier this month, was one of his clients, and Martin was writing me to share what he created for that event. “Over the last few years, I’ve developed an [...]

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What makes a photo blog successful?

May 25, 2010 – 8:03 am

To promote its new e-book, the Photography Blog Handbook, Photo Shelter recently posted a series of “success stories” by photo bloggers. That is, they asked these bloggers to talk about their most popular post and why they think that post connected with people. The reasons for the high traffic and heavy commenting on the posts [...]

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Is there hope for the annual-reports market?

May 24, 2010 – 3:45 pm

Technology may have opened up new possibilities for photographers, but it’s also decimated a number of previously reliable markets. Printed annual reports, for instance, have taken a hit because more and more companies are opting for PDFs and thus are much less interested in spending money on original photography. Kind of makes you wonder: Is [...]

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Vincent Laforet: “House” finale shot with Mark II was “stunning”

May 20, 2010 – 8:30 am

. While photographers feverishly discuss the pros and cons of shooting motion work with digital SLRs, at least one TV network has leaped into the fray in a very bold way. The season finale of the hit FOX series House—which aired this past Monday—was shot using, of all things, the Canon 5D Mark II. . [...]

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