Jamie Leary, Design Director, Philadelphia Magazine (formerly of Magnet, Decibel and Grid magazines) designs for a magazine that is more popular in my city than National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Men’s Health and Forbes, according to their circulation #’s.
In our discussion today, Jamie and I (your host, Neil Binkley) talk about:
- Magazine Art budgets
- My incredibly brief tenure as Director of Photography at my guest’s magazine
- How he hired someone to shoot a cover story, inspired by that photographer’s Instagram photos
- Hiring locals vs. hiring around the country
- Illustration vs. photography
- Photojournalism vs. Conceptual photography
- Photographers’ websites, and what he likes to see
- And we even investigate a mysterious heart attack…
- This and much, much more.
Links to What We Discuss:
Magazines & Related:
- Philadelphia Magazine’s “Best of Philly” cover
- New York magazine
- The Curtis Building
- Norman Rockwell cover for The Saturday Evening Post
- The New York Times Magazine
- Texas Monthly
- The New York Times Magazine’ “Infrastructure” covers One and Two, plus a more recent Photoillustration on the cover
- Philadelphia Magazine’s “The New Rich”
- Neil’s Pinterest Page of Outstanding Magazine and Book Covers
Photographers, Photo Editors & A Stylist:
- Kathy Ryan, The New York Times Magazine’s Dir. of Photography, photography book
- Jonathan Pushnik
- Claudia Gavin/Philadelphia Magazine’s Photo Editor
- Bobby Doherty/New York Magazine’s former Director of Photography
- Justin James Muir
- Jason Varney
- Lindsey Foret, stylist
- Matt Stanley
- Gene Smirnov
- Chris Crisman
- Adam Voorhes
- Dan Saelinger
- Clint Blowers
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