Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary Todoroff wrote: > > > From: Tim Atherton > > Just checked out the newsstands. The two latest copies of LIFE seem to > > be - the Frank Sinatra Issue & the Special Royal's Issue. > > > > Never mind multiple b&w contact prints on a page as they seem to be > > going for now, I guess this is the way of serious reportage? > > > Just ten minutes ago I was reading the latest LIFE (photos of Springfield, > Oregon kids on cover), and have never been as UNimpressed with a LIFE > magazine. Layout is new and feels really hacked up. Photos seem like they > were arranged by a junior high yearbook staff and some photo selections > made you wonder who the photo editor was. I can't imagine that the selected > photos represented the photographer's best shot. > > Is this a trend? > Gary, Somewhere recently I read/heard that Life had fired their only staffer and moved responsibility for hiring and managing photography from the editorial staff to the "design" staff. That should explain everything. donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego www.donalphilby.com