Fortune Magazine commissioned Chris Ware to do the cover for their annual Fortune 500 issue. He responded with the brilliant critique of capitalism you see above. Fortune promptly rejected it. (Via Kottke.)
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Thursday, 8 April 2010
Tales From FotoFest
Posted on 19:03 by election
The stage is set for portfolio speed-datingI've always wanted to go to Houston for FotoFest. The shows, the people, the line dancing. One year I'll get down there. In the meantime I asked a two friends, Phil Toledano and Justine Reyes, who attended the portfolio reviews this year to report back from the trenches. It's been a few days since they returned home, but you get the idea.Phil ToledanoNow
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Plagiarism: The World's Oldest Profession
Posted on 11:18 by election
With much (too much) discussion of late about plagiarism in the photography world, it's important to have some historical context. To wit, You Thought We Wouldn't Notice points to the interesting similarities between the lions in Peter Paul Rubens's “The Meeting of Marie de Médicis and Henri IV at Lyon” and Paul de Vos's “The Ark of Noah.” Theft seems to be the one true constant in the long human
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