Feature: Photography
Art and art direction – Thomas Lenthal
Thomas Lenthal, creative director for luxury fashion brands and his own magazine Paradis.
Pictures for rent
Stock photography receives little attention and wins even fewer awards, but it makes up a corporate vernacular that informs almost all levels of graphic design
Look away
‘The South’, Seymour Chwast’s special civil rights issue of Push Pin Graphic, was a virtuoso display of graphic design authorship
23 Envelope: ambience and inner space
Operating undercover, using the enigmatic title of 23 Envelope, Nigel Grierson and his partner Vaughan Oliver created designs of exceptional power. Their work inspired the next generation of image-makers. By Rick Poynor
Here, there and nowhere
Pictures of non-places, the grubby and eroded gaps between the real spaces of the urban realm, make a spectacle of the unspectacular
Reputations: Alexander Liberman
‘I think the term “art director” is the greatest misnomer. There’s no art in magazines unless you are reproducing works of art.’
Brought to Light
Editorial
Traces of man
Herbert Spencer’s photographs celebrate accidental design