Photography: October 2008 Archives

LOUPED IN: Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Berman talks about strippers and Hope

LOUPED IN: Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Berman talks about strippers and Hope

Lisa Berman has worked with some of the toughest and most talented photographers in the editorial world.  From Annie and Mark, to Nigel and Norman, and I know she has plenty of stories to tell...

Learn more about photography editing with our 6 panelists on November 11th at  Louped In

(Photograph by Lisa Kereszi, "Julie onstage in red bikini, East Village, NYC, 2001")

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Worth A Look

Worth A Look

To celebrate their 25th anniversary (of this iteration), Vanity Fair has been making lists of all the best things: parties and books and, of course, photography. The slideshow of their top 25 news photographs is online here. The photos, some downright haunting, stretch back far before just the last 25 years, oddly enough to 1936, the year the first era of VF ended.

Any you think they missed?

Jesse Owens in the final of the long jump at the 1936 Olympics, in Berlin. From Fox Photos/Getty Images.
Michele McNally awarded Picture Editor of the Year...

Michele McNally awarded Picture Editor of the Year...

...at the Lucie Awards at Lincoln Center!
SPD congratulates all the evening's winners.

Couldn't be there?  Well come see what all the excitement is about when Michele McNally and a panel of photo editors talk about what inspires them at LOUPED IN on Tuesday, November 11.

Photograph by Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
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LOUPED IN: TONIGHT!

LOUPED IN: TONIGHT!

"The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different."  -  John Szarkowski
The Photography Editors

They began in philosophy and film, retail and environmental studies; but today they are all photography editors: passionate about the images they produce, and the photographers they work with. On Tuesday night they'll talk about what sparks their imagination, their inspirations, and the assignments that keep them questioning, "how should this look?"
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Inspiration: Télérama

Inspiration: Télérama

If you've read my recent blogs, you've probably figured out by now that I'm not only a bit of a francophile, but also a huge Avedon fan, so forgive moi, but here comes just one more... On my recent trip to Paris, I also caught the very last day of the Avedon show at the Galerie de Jeu De Paume. Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 was an awe-inspiring retrospective that showed the photographer's span of work from the beginning of his career to his death in 2004, from his fashion photographs for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, to his portraits in the American West. In case you missed this exhibition, you can check out most of the work shown in his series of books at amazon.com. But since sadly, the Avedon show is over, so I wanted to share what I happened to pick up when as I was leaving the gallery, a little French magazine called Télérama.

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The Fader #57 Photo Special

The Fader #57 Photo Special

While the world AIDS crisis has received much media and political attention, coverage of the disease here in the United States has by comparison been relatively neglected. Only after the recent release of statistics detailing a marked and shocking increase in cases--particularly amongst young African-American women--has the news media responded to the seriousness of the issue here at home. But however shocking these figures--there are 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in America and the disease is leading cause of death of African American women between the ages of 15-34--they do little to make those at risk identify with those affected. Krisanne Johnson's photo essay in the current issue of The FADER focuses on the ordinary lives of young, black, American positive women. The story brings a human face to the impersonal statistics and gives an individual voice to some of those affected. From New York to Mississippi we are able to witness the everyday lives of these women, their family and their friends, while the text details first hand the experiences of two of these women, Marvelyn Brown and Lolisa Gibson, living with AIDS.

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Get Me Patrick!

Get Me Patrick!

We all remember the scene in, "The Devil Wears Prada" where Meryl Streep, as Anna Wintour yells at her assistant, played by Anne Hathaway, to get Demarchelier on the line, his name being tossed around throughout the film as if he were Madonna or Prince. Well the Musée du Petit Palais did get Patrick, and the result is truly inspiring.

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Sneak Peek: American Photography 24

Sneak Peek: American Photography 24

As most of us know from the email blast of last week, we're not so far away from the release of the American Photography annual, the 24th such installment. This year, AP24 was designed by SPD's very own Scott Dadich, CD of WIRED and features a cover photograph by Plamen Petkov. For the first time, the book is a horizontal affair with a double-spine, hard-cover, 3-piece case with extended flap and magnet enclosure in foil-embossed black satin with a silk-screened printed edge.
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