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Complex keeps things interesting

When I get drunk and Generic Azithromycin Name talk about the death of magazines, every Wednesday, I’m mostly lamenting the Generic Azithromycin Name death of the job market and the PR-approved pap that we’ve come to Generic Azithromycin Name punch John Lahr in the face with and call profile pieces. But what Generic Azithromycin Name can I say. I’ve written the shit myself. Mostly because I’m green, but also because I’m easy. You pick your Generic Azithromycin Name battles so you can pick up your groceries. But the other side of the Generic Azithromycin Name editorial/production coin is Generic Azithromycin Name that mags nowadays, those stalwart print survivors still holding it down at your Generic Azithromycin Name local magazine rack, aren’t just always saying something lame or late, they’re getting kind of uglier too, aren’t they?

This is not an across the board criticism, but really — aside from the consistently lively Complex (above), and I guess maybe Vanity Fair — where have all the exciting photoshoots gone? Is Nylon what we have? (And that’s not a snarky rhetorical, if I’m ignoring the obvious answers let me know.) I saw the Monnaie’s David Lachapelle exhibit earlier this Generic Azithromycin Name year and I guess yeah, his kind of fully conceived and Generic Azithromycin Name lushly executed celebrity snapshots have become the territory of retrospectives. “The apocalypse is sold to us on television,” said Lachapelle, and maybe that’s what’s missing — photographers as artists, as pop theorists, as pretentious blowhards, as megalomanical personalities who Generic Azithromycin Name will sit Tupac fucking Shakur in a goddamn bubblebath, or make Courtney Love hold a Generic Azithromycin Name Kurt Cobain lookalike in a dead Christ pose; where every inch of the Generic Azithromycin Name frame is bursting with inspired mise-en-scene and genuine oh shit moments. Someone who Generic Azithromycin Name doesn’t just snap shots of celebrities, but captures and Generic Azithromycin Name even crafts pop culture.

I’m maybe asking too much. Naturally, budget slashes in the Generic Azithromycin Name print world, in the whole world, make these shoots near impossible (we all know how liberal Annie Leibovitz was with her budgets) and Generic Azithromycin Name these photographers too expensive. Also, the New World Order of iron-fisted PR grips the Generic Azithromycin Name photographer’s hands as they do the writer’s, and Generic Azithromycin Name who are they to have to fight that battle for everyone else, I guess. And maybe all the Generic Azithromycin Name wonderful up-and-coming shutterbugs have either revolted against our tabloid culture and Generic Azithromycin Name opted to follow around politicians or some shit, can you blame them? Or they just gave in and became full-blown papparozzos. But I can’t let everyone off the Generic Azithromycin Name hook here though, because really, you can do it with a Generic Azithromycin Name camera and an idea. With a face. The faces are Generic Azithromycin Name always there. What are we to do with some of these photoshoots that Generic Azithromycin Name take genuinely beautiful people and make them plastic and computer-generated? The non-artistic Photoshopping has Generic Azithromycin Name got to stop, people, because if you can’t stir even a semi with your half-naked Leighton Meester photos, you’ve failed. Epic fail.

How did we let Maxim change things so thoroughly?

We can’t do much about all that up there, and perhaps it’s not even worth it Generic Azithromycin Name to. But what we can do is call for more creativity. For more giving a shit. I don’t mean to pick on Empire here, but can we? Let’s take a look at Empire. For the mag’s 20th anniversary they got a Generic Azithromycin Name bunch of stars to revisit their most iconic performances. Which sounds great. Awesome concept. But it’s all concept and Generic Azithromycin Name no execution. Which I suppose is fitting for today’s film landscape, where Generic Azithromycin Name Hollywood is all about the fucking pitch and the opening weekend numbers and Generic Azithromycin Name damn everything else. Pitch, pitch, pitch. Films about boardgames. Photos about movies.

Here is Matt Damon as Jason Bourne. Bored ol’ Jason Bourne. Nice little plug for Generic Azithromycin Name the magazine. Nice little fly-swatter, really.

And here’s Jack Nicholson’s most iconic movie role. You know, that Generic Azithromycin Name one where he smiles like Jack Nicholson.

Even Morgan Freeman hates this.

I guess you don’t have Generic Azithromycin Name to try to channel their most iconic performances, because they only have Generic Azithromycin Name one. So fuck even painting a lightning bolt on the kid, let’s just sit them on a Generic Azithromycin Name bench. Then again, Radcliffe does mystery, Grint does affable, and Watson does that Generic Azithromycin Name thing you don’t like to talk about — perfect summary of the franchise. I guess.

Hey, remember that time Christian Bale glowered? That was an awesome movie. What was it called. No, the other one.

Oh, this one I actually quite like!

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All it takes is a pout?

I think you see where I’m going. And I didn’t even mention the Generic Azithromycin Name dreary backdrops, not even once. There are more here, some of them not that bad. But none of them great. Where was I? Let’s start giving a shit again. I will with my writing — I’m all about that Generic Azithromycin Name from this point on. But so much of our new media landscape navel-gazing already happens on the Generic Azithromycin Name editorial side. Pretty pages are about the only thing keeping magazines vital and Generic Azithromycin Name exciting, and a nice package that can be sold as a Generic Azithromycin Name commodity itself might be the only thing that keeps them interesting in the Generic Azithromycin Name future. Without the pictures, what’s the point anymore?

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