My Sunday New York Times yesterday brought this wonderful visual surprise–a wrap around spectacular photograph:
Then I realized that this photo went all the way around the entire Sports Section:
Without doubt, nothing beats print in terms of allowing the designer to display a photo full throttle, as we see here. The rest of the section also displayed larger images to tell the amazing story of this woman amputee attempting to run 140.7 miles in southern Morocco.
How the story appeared on mobile
Obviously, the small canvas of the smartphone does not allow for the visual impact that we see with those photos in print. Here is how it looked:
Some of the photos did lose their impact compared to the printed edition version. However, the one just above, a graphic, is focused and direct and the idea type of photo image for the small screen of the phone.
In my new mobile storytelling book, The Story, I devote an entire segment to this issue: how important it is for high subject to context visibility. The photographer and the designer must keep in mind the importance of figure/ground relationships that start when photojournalists concentrate on focusing on specifics as opposed to larger and broader imagery that may work well for print, as we have seen in The New York Times example.
Mario’s weekend rituals…..
Monocle interviews me about what I do on a typical weekend (is there such a thing? Not for someone like me who is seldom in the same location twice. But I gave it my best shot, for what may come as a normal weekend, when I am home in New York! Enjoy.
https://monocle.com/minute/2019/04/27/
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An interview of interest
http://www.itertranslations.com/blog/2019/3/11/fd60ybflpvlqrgrpdp5ida5rq0c3sp
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