Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: >Yes, they fired their photography department and put control of photos in >the design department. They have given up their commitment to >photojournalism to become more entertainment/design oriented. > >Bad design I might ad. I've got to cancel my subscription. > >It's a sad day when such a move comes. But I was expecting it. The minute >Warner Brothers took over Time-Life I knew it was the end. > >Watch out Sports Illustrated! Elmer Fudd in a swimsuit can't be far off!>>>> Eric, It says alot for the money moguls of Warner Bros doesn't it? I'm sure the only art they recognize is the denomination and colour on paper money! It isn't even as good as the trashy rag-mags of Tabloid country!! Their mistake? They should have fired the "new wave look" visually illiterate design department and give the photo department a major boost in budget to make the magazine look like it did in it's prime. If they had recognized the "Power of B&W" photography, certainly in the frailties of human beings suffering in the US and about the world, they could have turned it back into the power house high earning revenue producer it once was! They could do high powered B&W entertainment pieces with greater visual excitment than the trash colour "one picture" per story they use now. Hell they don't even have "good entertainment" images or layouts compared to the "movie flik" magazines. Besides, who the hell wants to look like all the rest when the rest are better looking? And that isn't an endorsement of the rags mags! The magazine should be put down and out of it's misery!!!!!!! What they are doing is playing on the name of "LIFE" with the blindness of today's design school mentality! Confusion is in!!!!! <<Watch out Sports Illustrated! Elmer Fudd in a swimsuit can't be far off!>>>> Now that's something that would sell well on the comic book stands!:) However, not many swim suits! :) If the same gang of designers get control of Sports Illustrated pages it'll die in no time, as the sports folks expect great powerful sports images and layouts. Not some airy fairy looking pages that you can't tell the jocks from the jerks! IMHO!!! Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant