April 9, 2009

Two new Websites are using photographs imaginatively and dynamically.

There’s FLYP, which is an online magazine at hyperspeed. Jim Gaines, my former editor at Life (and also the only man to edit People, Time, and Life) and his colleagues have created a hybrid electronic magazine-Website-journalism experience that is very promising. And there’s the newly revamped LIFE Online, courtesy of Getty Images and Time Inc., which gives a visitor the day’s dose of news pictures and the tip of the iceberg of the vast Life magazine archive. (Full disclosure: I launched the original Lifemag.com in 1995-6, the truly DARK AGES for Web iterations of magazines, as Life’s director of photography and new media.)

...Also, as long as you're browsing, please note that The Digital Journalist devotes this month’s online issue to video-journalism.

...And while we’re on the subjects of superlatives, I recommend Philip Gefter’s new book, Photography After Frank. I just bought it and cannot put it down.