Thank you to all those who sent questions. A lot of good ideas to discuss here. I’m one person with one opinion, so take what you hear for what it’s worth. There is much to be done.
https://therawsociety.org/editing-and-bookmaking/ Spain editing and bookmaking class.
1. 2:40, Are you still using Tenba?
2. 6:10, What is your opinion of the recent ripping of Annie?
3. 11:07, What are the best magazines to subscribe to?
4. 16:00, Should doc photographers use drone images as establishing shots?
5. 18:00, Who are the three people we should look at from Paris Photo? Three books?
6. 23:33, How do you develop film?
7. 25:00, If you had the chance to be an ads director for a feature film do you think your photography background would help?
8. 28:00, Will you do a review of the Zf?
9. 33:45, How do I continue a project without being seen as exploitative?
10. 35:45, Are you still using your business card?
11. 38;16, Can you talk about the “above the line work,” vs the “below the line?”
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Totally of topic – but I can’t help notice the furniture in the background. Is it a tall Siesta (Norwegian design) chair you have there. I have the one I grew up with and it must be 50 years old and the still make them. Great chair for reading.
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It might be. Gifted to me by a friend. you folks make some great furniture. Thank you.
PS – not visible in this video.
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Yes, given back to a family member…
Dan,
As far as I can remember, the website below was set up originally, years ago, by one of the ex-directors of French PHOTO magazine, which I discovered in the 80s when we moved to Spain.
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/faq-frequently-asked-questions/
I did not subscribe because I had, by that time, stopped buying PHOTO. THE US version, when it came out as American PHOTO, was also available here in Spain at the time. It was built on the grave of old American Photography magazine, I think, which had gone the way of the dodo. It was funny, buying both, to see how things such as “The world’s one hundred most influential photographers” than ran in both issues, listed some different names so as to keep both European and US readerships happy with their local heroes.
I used to buy Popular Photography magazine’s two annuals every year, one of which was in colour. That’s where, in ‘59, I discovered and fell in love with Saul Leiter’s oeuvre; no wonder I get pissed off when I read folks praising William Eggleston as founder of colour photography as art! I have difficulty associating Mr E with art at all, but that may be my failure rather than anything else.
I don’t buy any magazines anymore. Even Vogue, which I once loved, has, in my view, become nothing but a pale copy of its former glorious self. Of course, this opinion might be the result of just unfortunate impulse buying, but then again, one impulse upon another soon adds up to a definitive view of something. Nova, the wonderful magazine that burst upon the UK with all the fresh air of Hari Peccinotti and Hans Feurer also met its Waterloo some years later. It was eventually revived under a new crew, but I think they totally misunderstood what had made the original so exciting: the new child thought that frequent four-letter words were enough to pull it off. I bought – and still have – the first copy of the new magazine, but only continued buying for a very short time. It, too, vanished. I guess that the format is probably not really viable if you insist upon high production values, which perhaps accounts for the plethora of junk that indeed does currently fill some newsstands. The paying public gets what it deserves and wants.
Regarding Ms Leibovitz: did your original correspondent mean she was recently ripped off, or that her reputation had been ripped into, questioned? There are at least two long videos about her worth watching. The first one was called Life of a Photographer or Life through a Lens, or something close to one of those. I enjoyed it, and later bought the massive tome of that title, only to be bitterly disappointed. I had anticipated a big “ best of” photo-book, but what I discovered I’d ordered, when it arrived, was a very (to me) uninteresting account of little more than her domestic affairs and love partner. The other video, unless I am getting confused somewhat, is the Vogue “September Issue” where I think reference is made to her extravagant shooting format. This is all pretty old stuff; could be I am thinking of some other video about her modus operandi, or the comment might even feature in the first of those two videos.
Zf. Well, perhaps you’re being a little harsh on folks who’d like and enjoy a review. You don’t have to be a dunce to like to be informed on new stuff. That said, I respect your refusal to do a formal review: there are many alternative review sites out there, even if many fall into the trap of praising every new thing as the best thing ever, even when it sometimes clearly is not. Worse, sites that drift into the reviewer trap end up trying to monetise themselves, thus destroying the very aura of independence that made them attractive in the first place. Such is life.
For me, you have struck the perfect format; I envy you your youth and energy!
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Yes, these mags had to cater to their field, like everything nowadays. I don’t buy many mags either. Annie has had a remarkable career. Not everyone is a people person, even those who spend their lives making pictures of other people. Ran into Martha Stewart once, what a disaster that was. The ZF is SO simple it doesn’t require a review. My feeling is that 99% of those who want a review will never buy one and should spend the time practicing.