Présentation de l'éditeur
This volume offers a behind-the-scenes look into how a world-class magazine-one of the preeminent venues for contemporary photography-comes together, through the voices of die editors, photographers, and their subjects. The New York Times Magazine Photographs features the work and words of 140 of the key image makers of our time.
Biographie de l'auteur
Kathy Ryan, the Director of Photography at the New York Times Magazine, has worked with the publication for more than twenty-five years; in that time, the Magazine has been recognized with numerous photography awards. Ryan received the 1997 Picture Editor of the Year Award at the Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France; a Lucie Award for Picture Editor of the Year in 2003; and a lifetime achievement award from the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1997. In 2008 she was a cocurator of the inaugural New York Photo Festival, and in the following year organized the exhibitions Prune: Abstracting Reality for FOAM Museum in Amsterdam and Dutch Seen for the Museum of the City of New York and FOAM. Ryan lectures widely and serves as a mentor and thesis advisor at New York's School of Visual Arts. A pioneer in combining fine-art photography and photojournalism in the pages of the Magazine, she has also recently been commissioning videos for the New York Times website. Gerald Marzorati is an Assistant Managing Editor of the New York Times. He was the Editor of the New York Times Magazine from 2003 to 2010. Before joining the Times in 1994, he worked as an editor at the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the SoHo Weekly News.
