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The Picture Professional
About the Magazine
The Picture Professional magazine is the beautifully designed four-color, quarterly publication of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP), mailed to all members, advertisers and other subscribers. Issues are published at the end of March, June, September and December each year. Our readers include creators, distributors, buyers and those who make their living working with visual content.
Our magazine’s editorial content includes columns by respected experts in research and archiving, technology, photography law and the art and business of the professional imaging industry. Each issue, typically 72 pages, features two portfolios displaying a variety of image genres from photography professionals around the world. Our “What’s Hanging” section details select photography exhibitions in cities near you. Other special feature topics include marketing strategies, industry trends, copyright issues and business practices.
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Issue 4, 2011
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Issue 3, 2011
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Issue 2, 2011
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The following is a sample of contents for Issue 2.2011, including two articles.
Click here to read "Chapter Capture," which summarizes ASPP chapter meetings nationwide.
Click here to read "Book Reviews," which includes reviews on the following:
- Fine Art Wedding Photography by Jose Villa and Jeff Kent
- Eastwood on Eastwood by Michael Henry Wilson
- Elite Fighting Forces: From the Praetorian Guard to the Green Berets, edited by Jeremy Black
- The A-Z of Creative Photography by Lee Frost
- Forties Fashion by Jonathan Walford
- Watching by n&d
- Charles Brittin, West and South by Charles Brittin
There's lots of good information in every issue of The Picture Professional. In this issue:
- Cover and Portfolio on World Press Photo 2011
- "What's Hanging," tells about photo shows around the world
- "A Day in Photography: The Art of Science" and accompanying portfolio on Fundamental Photographs by Kip Peticolas
- "Fluidity" discusses the unifying themes writer Rachel Seed found at the PhotoPlus Expo in New York last November
- "Elder Lifestyle" by Pat Hunt
- "The Law: What's Next for the Google Book Project" by Joel L. Hecker, Esq.
- "The First Twenty" commemorating Alaska Stock's 20-year anniversary by Laurie McCampbell, the agency's director of sales and marketing
- "Being There," a discussion on picture professionals living and/or working in Japan on March 11 by Cecilia de Querol, ASPP's Technology co-chair.
- "Life in Focus," the last image in the issue, shows a young boy being checked for radiation levels in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture after the earthquake in Japan last March.
ABOUT THE COVER: Darren Choy of Singapore carries the tourch at the opening ceremony of the first-ever Youth Olympics Games. The inaugural event was held in August 2010 bringing 3,351 athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 to Singapore. This image was a winner in the 2011 World Press Photo contest. ©Adam Pretty/Getty Images
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