Friday, May 4, 2007

Photo Credit

To me visuals is one of the most important thing in a magazine. It's the first thing that catches you when you see a magazine or when you're just flipping through one. If you see something interesting, you read it (of course the writing is also very important). Photographers should always be credited for their work.

If you think about it. Writer's write, rappers rap, thats your hustle so you should be credited for your work, music and art.

I was reading XXL yesterday, and I was very excited to see an article on Mistah FAB. The visuals is one of the best ones in the magazine I thought (especially cause the pictures are the pictures that Vivian Chen took for STASH for our first issue).


I was looking for her name in the photo credit and I couldn't find it anywhere. Then, I looked at other articles and was surprised to see that NONE of the articles have a photo credit (this was online at www.xxlmag.com by the way).

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(even though Shemp did touch the picture... it's still Vivian Chen's photos.)


So if you want to check out some great photography go to the links below;

www.littlestdetails.com

http://jennifertamez.com/

http://www.dmaddux.com/

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

shouldnt graphic designers get credit as well? they put together the visual of the magazine's layout - getting the text and photography to be one cohesive piece