Re: [Leica] interesting magazine article

[Andre Jean Quintal <quia250249@yahoo.com>]

At 22:49 -0800 06/11/98, Donal Philby wrote:
[ . . . ]
>All this made me wonder if they were intentionally messing up the
>reproduction.  No, they wouldn't do that, would they?  I did sometime
>later see a book by Iwago and it didn't look much better--not an
>advertisement for Leica.
>Donal Philby

	Re: OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER
	and related "outdoor" magazines.

	1 / The ONE totally outstanding "outdoor"
	and "wildlife" magazine that must have a real
	brilliant chief editor is called "BIOSPHERE".
	Consistently impressive: the articles are
	real science, the graphic arts noteworthy,
	but it's the photography and generous sizes
	that makes this magazine.
	I once wrote, here, i'd post the address
	but neglected to do so. I hope to amend
	by tomorrow.

	2 / Since printing and graphic arts are
	a few of my other hobbies, i've been
	checking magazines that would TEACH
	from their excellence, the excellence of the
	advertising, too.

	In photography proper, the ultimate magazine
	definitely is "SELECT" from Germany.
	C$20 monthly, A3 vertical size.
	Photography you'll DROOL over :
	the subjects, the technique, the execution proper.
	No cheap paper, either. Worth every penny.
	It has a "professional photographer"
	self promotion or "exposure" dimension to it
	worth mentioning, in the way of "support the
	photo community" components.

	Other places i keep learning from are:
	Vogue, Vanity Fair, Seventeen, Muy (Spain), GEO,
	Playboy (corny to some but then just try to
	beat the level of photography in there,
	hat's not entering a discussion of their
	reproduction / printing excellence),
	and catalogs and product literature.

	Two magazines that have gone down
	in photographic excellence are: National Geographic
	and LIFE. Stock photography is much better
	than what these have been using, on average,
	in the last few years.

	Rolling Stone fades compared to British Rock
	and "Pop" mags, photo wise.

	Vertical markets mags can be outstanding,
	the snowboard, sailing, and cruise marketing
	magazines strhigh grades where i'm concerned.

	Finally, corporate calendars of Euro brand
	names can be shockingly good, often.

	I hope you would post magazines titles
	we should check out, photo wise.
	Seems collectible mags are becoming a rarity.

	Andre Jean Quintal