Popular Photography Shuts It’s Doors After 80 Years
The sad end to Popular Photography Magazine
The sad end to Popular Photography Magazine
Although I was the son of a professional cinematographer and still photographer, the names of photographic giants Ansel Adams and Edward Weston were of little importance to me. At the moment I first turned the pages of “In Wildness” in our living room, my teenaged mind — swirling with the psychedelic imagery of the Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and 1960’s pop art— was brought to a new place by the large-format, sublime, color photographs of Eliot Porter.
By KATHERINE ROSMAN Elizabeth McGuire hates her children’s school photos. “School mug shots,” she calls them. Parents readily snap and share tons of photos, causing some to ask why would they want a school portrait of their child with a forced grin and hair brushed badly in front of a…
Now more than ever, images and photography play a decisive role in defining your company’s image. When SEO (search engine optimization) tools and specialists record and analyze the duration, source, and movement of each site visit, can you really afford NOT to use professionally produced photographs in your marketing? Is the good enough photo made by someone on your in-house team, what you really want on the front page of marketing piece?
Selling your own photographic prints and licensing your work is now a do-it-yourself imperative! The photography marketplace is overflowing with online providers of print production services and increasingly, options for posting and selling licensed images on your own, without the help of a stock agency.
© Paul Mozell Let’s say that you work in the marketing communications department of a technology, financial services, or bio-tech company. The VP of marketing has just assigned you to a team developing a new corporate identity. This includes new marketing brochures, sell sheets, web content, and a schedule of…
© Paul Mozell A photographer-colleague of mine recently told me that she shot over 1200 images at a recent wedding. Another photographer I know guarantees his clients that he will shoot and deliver at least 400 photographs to the bride and groom. In the bygone era of film, 200 frames…
© Paul Mozell 2007 It seems that the political and social atmosphere these days is making it increasing difficult to take stock and editorial photographs in public places. I’m still fuming about being hassled recently by the police in a Massachusetts town who were unhappy about me taking photographs at…