Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --On Wednesday, April 23, 2003 01:07:20 PM -0600 Kit McChesney | acmefoto <kitmc@acmefoto.com> wrote: > The old gray goose just ain't what she used to be. > > I'd say that the magazine has become so mass-market (the last time I > checked, which was about ten years ago, they were charging about $175,000 > for a four-color full page ad) that the content has definitely suffered. > Seems a bit thin. It's fast-produced, mass-produced. Used to be you could > not buy the NG on newsstands. It was just not possible. Now they're in > Safeway and everywhere else. It's a nice magazine, but it's not the same > publication it used to be, not a journal of the National Geographic > Society, which meant something quite different from what it means now. > > There is still good work in it, but it just doesn't have the same feel it > once had, at least not when I was a youngin' lusting to be the "other" > woman in its ranks. Every month I would grab the new issue as soon as it > arrived, and look in the credits to see if the lone female--whose name I > can't remember anymore--had been joined by any other. I can't remember > if, in my days of rabid NG fandom, if there was ever more than one woman > on staff. Now I see they've come out with a book called "Women > Photographers of National Geographic." I must have been doing something > else while they added enough women to qualify for a coffee-table book > featuring female shooters. > > Kit I think Karen Kasmauski was the first one, but there were definitely others later. Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html