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Town & Country is 162 years old. It weathered the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the Great Depression.

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Fri, 22 May 2009 08:23:27 -0700 French Vogue Editor Carine Roitfeld http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/french-vogue-editor-carine-roitfeld http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/french-vogue-editor-carine-roitfeld
She believes in the simple power of beautiful pictures to sell her magazine

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Tue, 19 May 2009 05:40:29 -0700 Taliban | Magnum In Motion http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/taliban-magnum-in-motion http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/taliban-magnum-in-motion

These portraits of Taliban soldiers were collected by Dworzak during his coverage of the fall of the Taliban regime in 2002. It is thought that most of these pictures are from Taliban members who had to flee the advancing opposition.

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Fri, 15 May 2009 05:30:34 -0700 Fake photography license for fake no-photos laws - Boing Boing http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/fake-photography-license-for-fake-no-photos-l http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/fake-photography-license-for-fake-no-photos-l

All around the world, cops and rent-a-cops are vigorously enforcing nonexistent anti-terrorist bans on photography in public places. If you're worried about being busted under an imaginary law, why not download these templates and print yourself an imaginary "Photography license" from the DHS? Who knows if it's legal to carry one of these -- probably about as legal as taking away your camera and erasing your memory card for snapping a pic on the subway.
In the event you're stopped by overzealous law enforcement or security officials attempting to enforce fictitious laws, I've designed these fictitious and official-looking Photographer's Licenses. If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can download the EPS vector art file and print your own. You'll need a photo of yourself, and OCR (or a similar font) to fill in your personal information.

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Wed, 13 May 2009 20:45:11 -0700 Leslie de la Vega Photo Editor at Time http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/leslie-de-la-vega-photo-editor-at-time http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/leslie-de-la-vega-photo-editor-at-time
Judging a competition is one of the most enjoyable aspects of being a photo editor. Judging student competitions is even better. You get to see the future of photography. I was even more enthusiastic about the images that thought outside the 'box'. It was wonderful to witness the emergence of new, raw talent.

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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:25:01 -0700 Peter Arnell Owes HarperCollins $100,000 http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/peter-arnell-owes-harpercollins-100000 http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/peter-arnell-owes-harpercollins-100000
The deal was initially worth $550k, but he took $100k up front to, you know, get things going. Then he hired a ghost writer, fired that person, and then another ghost writer who was also fired before deciding that he'd just do it already with the help of his wife and assistant. But when he handed in his homework it was a few thousand words short (only 25,000 of the 80,000 agreed to) and bla bla now HC wants their moneys back.

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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:52:43 -0700 Coke Wants To Pay Agencies Based on a "Value-Based" Model http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/coke-wants-to-pay-agencies-based-on-a-value-b http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/coke-wants-to-pay-agencies-based-on-a-value-b
The only problem with performance-based compensation is that marketing campaigns are only as good as the clients who direct them. If this trend continues, will we see agencies being pickier in selecting not only the brands they work on, but the marketers they report to as well?

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Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:04:13 -0700 they can’t match the snob appeal of the Economist http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/they-cant-match-the-snob-appeal-of-the-econom http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/they-cant-match-the-snob-appeal-of-the-econom

Vanity Fair's Matt Pressman says there are four reasons "Time and Newsweek will never be the Economist."

These include:

  • There aren’t that many readers up for grabs
  • They can’t win over the finance crowd
  • They don’t understand what The Economist is

The best reason Matt comes up with, is that those magazines "they can’t match the snob appeal"of the Economist:

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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:27:48 -0700 inferior content is the main thing killing your publication http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/inferior-content-is-the-main-thing-killing-yo http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/inferior-content-is-the-main-thing-killing-yo
it doesn't take long before these photographers stop even trying to make good pictures and just concentrate on the crap their editors want

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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:10:51 -0700 Users will actually pay for online sports content http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/users-will-actually-pay-for-online-sports-con http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/users-will-actually-pay-for-online-sports-con
Users will actually pay for online sports content. "It's live and people are passionate about it," says Robert A. Bowman, CEO of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, which expects to generate $100 million this year from the 300,000 fans—a 15% bump from last season—willing to pay up to $109.95 a year to stream baseball games

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Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:06:00 -0700 Shoot Square http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/shoot-square http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/shoot-square
Roger Ballen, the American photographer of South African weirdness says that he shoots square, because you don't have to choose between landscape or portrait and that's one less choice to make.

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Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:16:58 -0700 When does a shtick become a shtick? (Conscientious) http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/when-does-a-shtick-become-a-shtick-conscienti http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/when-does-a-shtick-become-a-shtick-conscienti
A well known photographer once told me that an extremely well known and influential gallerist had told him that the road to success was to find one's niche and then to simply produce work that way (think babies in "cute" dresses or Weimaraners or overly Photoshoped celebrities or whatever else you can think of).

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Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:15:00 -0700 The problem is if all the informing from the past overwhelms the informing from the present http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/the-problem-is-if-all-the-informing-from-the http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/the-problem-is-if-all-the-informing-from-the
And snapshots from old family albums have a habit of looking good because they are more than snapshots: people took more time making them than they do now, people wore better clothes than they do now, people didn't necessarily know what was expected of them in front of the camera and if they did, they performed their task with more dignity, conviction and self-belief than they do now.

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Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:56:27 -0700 no major label had thought to promote its music through its own blog until now http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/no-major-label-had-thought-to-promote-its-mus http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/no-major-label-had-thought-to-promote-its-mus
Seven years after the first MP3 blog (Fluxblog) arrived on the scene, EMI Australia has unveiled what it's calling "the first major label blog" in the world. And as far as we can tell, that's an accurate description. Apparently, no major label had thought to promote its music through its own blog until now.

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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:29:15 -0700 Book publishing isn’t what it was 10 years ago http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/book-publishing-isnt-what-it-was-10-years-ago http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/book-publishing-isnt-what-it-was-10-years-ago
Maybe they shouldn’t, but most people do judge a book by its cover. In fact, cover design is one of the most obvious and effective strategies publishers use to promote their titles.

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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:43:43 -0700 Instead they reinvented themselves, and the market. http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/instead-they-reinvented-themselves-and-the-ma http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/instead-they-reinvented-themselves-and-the-ma
Bruce Livingston, recently retired from Getty images started Istockphoto by putting some of his images on it and trading them with others. Surprised by its popularity, he decided to charge, not really to make money, but to pay for his hosting bills. He thus invented microstock.  Another ” failed” photographer, Jon Oringer, started Shutterstock with 30,000 of his own images, mostly because he couldn’t get accepted in a traditional stock agency.

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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:45:13 -0700 The annual AIPAD show at the New York Armory http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/the-annual-aipad-show-at-the-new-york-armory http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/the-annual-aipad-show-at-the-new-york-armory
Contemporary photography still seems heavily weighted to what American Photo editor at large Jean Jacques Naudet calls “plasticians”—the artists who use photographic processes and technology to create utterly fabricated imagery.

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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:08:56 -0700 The only way photography can be saved is to stop promoting this “salon photography “ http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/the-only-way-photography-can-be-saved-is-to-s http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/the-only-way-photography-can-be-saved-is-to-s
I see great work from pro photographers who could actually use the money to achieve great work. What is wrong with you ? is this the kind of photography you really want to promote ? Henri Cartier Bresson must be having a tsunami in his grave as I can assure you, that was NOT the reason he created Magnum. Not for that kind of nombrilistic, uber self-absorded, hyper refflective intello photography.

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Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:43:10 -0700 The end of print (as we know it) http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/the-end-of-print-as-we-know-it http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/the-end-of-print-as-we-know-it

The end of print (as we know it)

Several people at Colophon2009 asked to see my talk again so here it is.

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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:51:25 -0700 Just because you can go somewhere doesn't mean you should http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/just-because-you-can-go-somewhere-doesnt-mean http://aphotoeditor.posterous.com/just-because-you-can-go-somewhere-doesnt-mean
There was a time when a book could be sold purely because its author had been to distant climes and had returned to tell of the exotic sights he had seen. That author was Marco Polo, and the time was the thirteenth century.

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