Being a few days old, this has probably already been discussed in web-o-land, but someone just sent me a link to this NPR On the Media episode discussing editorial portraiture w/ Martin Schoeller, Jill Greenberg, and Platon.

Here’s the MP3:
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audio: NPR’s On The Media, “Snap Judgments”, Noverber 28, 2008.

They summed it up right off the bat when they said it’s about money – I’d specify for the magazines and the photographers.  After all, I’ll hullabaloo with the best of them on art and integrity and.  But editorial remains a business (even if it’s the biz of getting tearsheets).  And the end of the day ethics of business is profit.