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What do these images need? What does this book need? If I brought this out and people could buy it for five dollars, might I not sell eight thousand copies more, or two thousand copies more than I’m going to sell if I bring it out priced at fourteen dollars? […]
If photography books are to become really viable as products, without meaning as “merchandise,” if they’re to be able to be self-sustaining as a produced artifact, they’ve got to go beyond the market in photography. […]
Janet Reitman’s feature article, “Jahar’s World,” a profile of the surviving suspect in the Boston bombing of April 15, 2013, doesn’t earn its position as the cover story for this issue of Rolling Stone. Nothing in it justifies giving what’s basically a rehash of the material already in circulation pride of place in this issue of the magazine. Which makes designating this as the cover story, with the use of Jahar’s selfie on the cover, a cheap trick. That offends me. […]
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Dog Day Afternoons: Bits & Pieces (4)
Janet Reitman’s feature article, “Jahar’s World,” a profile of the surviving suspect in the Boston bombing of April 15, 2013, doesn’t earn its position as the cover story for this issue of Rolling Stone. Nothing in it justifies giving what’s basically a rehash of the material already in circulation pride of place in this issue of the magazine. Which makes designating this as the cover story, with the use of Jahar’s selfie on the cover, a cheap trick. That offends me. […]