American Photography 26 Jury
Gail Buckland, Author, Lecturer, Curator and Authority on Photography
Gail Buckland is the curator of the exhibition “Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History,” 1955 to the Present organized by the Brooklyn Museum. It will tour to Worcester Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, and Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina. In 2003 she organized “Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures” at the Chelsea Art Museum, based on her book and the Court TV special for which she was a consultant. Other exhibitions include “Visions of Liberty,” marking the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, and “Shanties to Skyscrapers,” depicting the phenomenal growth of New York City, both held at the New-York Historical Society.
Gail is the former Olympus Visiting Professor of the History of Photography at The Cooper Union, New York City where she has taught since 1979. In 1991 she held the Nobel Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College. The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, where Buckland served as Curator in the 1970s, awarded Professor Buckland in 2008 their prestigious J. Dudley Johnston Award for “major achievement in photographic criticism or history” and “sustained excellence.”
Professor Buckland is the author or collaborator on twelve books of photography and history, including Al and Tipper Gore’s book “The Spirit of Family”. She also served as photographic consultant to former Vice-President Al Gore on his PowerPoint presentation, documentary and book “An Inconvenient Truth.”
One of the most popular exhibitions in London in the 1970s was “From Today Painting is Dead: The Beginnings of Photography” at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She helped organize the exhibition, choose the 1000 exhibits, direct the design team and write the catalogue. The exhibition included photographs from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle; the Andre Jammes collection, Paris; and other major European collections. She also curated “Cecil Beaton War Photographs” in 1981 for the Imperial War Museum, London.
To mark the 50th anniversary of American Heritage magazine in 2004, the editors selected Gail, above all other writers and historians of photography, to choose the “Ten Most Indispensable Photographs” in American history.
Scott Dadich, Creative Director, Wired
Scott Dadich is the creative director of Wired magazine. His 2007 redesign was honored with the 2008 National Magazine Award for Design, the American magazine industry’s highest design honor. He won the coveted NMA for Design again in 2009. His August 2006 cover with Stephen Colbert was named Best Celebrity Cover by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Dadich has received more than 100 national design and editorial awards, including 35 gold and silver medals from the Society of Publication Designers (SPD). In 2008 and 2009, Wired won SPD Magazine of the Year, and Dadich served as President of the Society, rebuilding and redesigning the organization's website and identity.
In addition to overseeing design, photography and production for the print magazine, Dadich directed the 2007 redesign and relaunch of Wired.com (Condé Nast’s highest-trafficked website) and was the creative director for the 10-hour PBS television series Wired Science.
Previously, Dadich was creative director of Texas Monthly, which was nominated for 14 National Magazine Awards during his tenure and won for General Excellence in 2003. In 2005 and 2006, the City and Regional Magazine Association named him Designer of the Year, and Print magazine named him one of its “20 Under 30” breakthrough visual talents in the world. In 2009, Dadich debuted designs for his first two books, Dan Winters' long-awaited monograph, “Periodical Photographs,” for Aperture—named one of the most notable books of 2009 by PDN—and “American Photography 24.”
Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Real Simple
Janet Froelich is Creative Director of Real Simple, where she oversees the monthly magazine, books, products and related publications. Real Simple’s debut redesign issue appeared in November 2009. Before coming to Real Simple, Janet was Creative Director of The New York Times Magazine and of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
Under Janet’s direction, The New York Times Magazines won more than 60 gold and silver awards from The Art Directors Club, The Society of Publication Designers, and the Society of Newspaper Designers. The Times Magazines were finalists for SPD’s Magazine of the Year Award every year since the award’s inception, winning the award in 1999 and 2007. Janet’s work has appeared in the annuals of the AIGA, the Type Directors Club, Graphis, Print, American Photography and American Illustration, and in 1999 The New York Times Magazine was honored with a retrospective show at The Art Director’s Club in New York.
In 2004, Janet oversaw the redesign of the Part II publications of The New York Times Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine received wide acclaim in the fashion and design communities. In 2006 Janet oversaw the design of Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine, and Key: The New York Times Real Estate Magazine. Play was named one of the 10 best magazine launches of the year by Media Industry Newsletter.
Janet is a 2006 recipient of The Art Directors Club Hall of Fame award, a past member of the board of directors of the Society of Publication Designers, a past president of The New York Chapter of the AIGA, and is currently on the board of The Art Directors Club. She has served on the faculty of The School of Visual Arts graduate and undergraduate design programs, and has been a visiting critic at Yale University.
Before joining The New York Times Magazine, Janet was the Art Director of The Daily News Magazine, a principal designer of The Daily News Tonight Newspaper, a teacher of drawing and painting, and a painter. She received a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale University. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and has two grown children.
Luke Hayman, Partner, Pentagram
Luke Hayman was born in Hertfordshire, England and studied graphic design at Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London, graduating with honors in 1988. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1992. He joined Pentagram as a partner in December 2006.
Luke’s wide-ranging expertise encompasses the design of magazines, books, identities and exhibitions. He has served as the design director of I.D. magazine; senior partner and associate creative director in the Brand Integration Group (BIG) at Ogilvy & Mather, New York; creative director for Media Central and Brill’s Content magazine; and creative director of Travel + Leisure magazine. In 2004 Luke joined New York magazine as design director. Working alongside editor-in-chief Adam Moss, he was instrumental in restoring the title to prominence.
Since joining Pentagram, Luke has redesigned numerous publications including TIME, Consumer Reports, Communications of the ACM, The Atlantic and the Khaleej Times, a broadsheet newspaper in Dubai. He has designed identities for Kagan, the New York Photo Festival, the World Science Festival, the White House Historical Association, the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
Luke’s work has been consistently recognized by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the Society for Publication Designers, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Folio magazine and the Art Directors Club. His tenure at New York culminated in 2006 with a prestigious National Magazine Award for excellence in magazine design from the American Society of Magazine Editors. New York was also twice named Magazine of the Year by the Society for Publication Designers and received a silver award from British Design and Art Direction (D&AD).
Luke has served as the vice president of the Society of Publication Designers and currently sits on the board of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He has lectured at design conferences all over the world and in 2008 he presented the Delacourt Lecture at the Columbia School of Journalism. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
Steven Kasher, Owner, Steven Kasher Gallery
Steven Kasher is a gallery owner, writer, curator, and publisher. His gallery specializes in social/historical/artistic photography, especially of the 1950s-1980s, and represents contemporary photographers as well. He is the author of “The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68” (Abbeville, 1996) “America and the Tintype” (Steidl/ICP, 2008), and numerous essays about art and photography. He has curated exhibitions about the Civil Rights Movement for over 20 institutions worldwide. He is co-editor, co-designer, and co-publisher (with Steidl) of books about Mike Disfarmer (2005), American mugshots (2006), Albert Maysles (2007), and Chauncey Hare (2008). He is the gallery representative of the National Geographic Archive. His website, stevenkasher.com, features over 40 exhibitions.
Michael Norseng, Photo Director, Esquire Magazine
Michael Norseng was born and raised in Northern Wisconsin, and attended the University of Wisconsin majoring in film history and post-production. He has worked at Esquire since 2004, becoming the magazine’s Photo Director in 2007. Prior to Esquire, he was with GQ Magazine. Michael is on the judging panel of the Hearst Journalism Awards and his work has been acknowledged by SPD, PDN, and American Photography.
Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, TIME
Kira Pollack is the Director of Photography for TIME magazine. Prior to that, she was the Deputy Photo Editor at The New York Times Magazine, where she worked since 1998. Prior to that she was an associate photo editor at The New Yorker Magazine.
American Illustration 29 Jury
Rodrigo Corral, Principal, Rodrigo Corral Design
Rodrigo Corral established his studio, Rodrigo Corral Design, in 2002. Since that time, he has created a rich, iconic and utterly unique graphic language. Whether designing signature book jackets for Chuck Palahniuk, Junot Díaz or Tennesse Williams, glamorous books for The First Lady or the Olsen Twins, avante-garde packaging for the films of Jean-Luc Goddard or thoughtful illustrations for the New York Times, Rodrigo creates intelligent works of charm, art and wit. His sensibility is a combination of highbrow, lowbrow, the vernacular and the spectacular. He has designed countless best sellers, won many, many design awards, has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and lectured around the country. Through it all, he remains deeply committed to transcending the visual possibilities in art, in culture, and throughout the universe.
Irene Gallo, Tor, Forge, & Starscape Books
Rob Hewitt, Principal, Curious Outsider Design Studio
In 1999 Rob Hewitt swapped his small town outside of Vancouver, British Columbia for New York in order to pursue editorial design. Since then, Hewitt has held design positions at various magazines and served as Art Director for such magazines as Play (New York Times Sports Magazine), National Geographic Adventure, Golf, and Premiere. After eight years in the magazine industry working with people he admired — and after Premiere magazine's untimely demise — Hewitt decided to open Curious Outsider, a small design studio located in New York City. Clients include United Airlines Hemispheres Magazine/Ink Publishing, MIT Technology Review, MovieMaker LLC, New York University’s Medical Center and American Photography. Hewitt's work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Print, AIGA (NY) and the Type Director’s Club and he has also won awards from the Society of Publication Design.
Kory Kennedy, Design Director, Runner’s World
Kory Kennedy received his B.F.A. in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design in New York City. After many proclamations of never, ever going into the magazine game, he accepted a position as Designer at Interview magazine straight out of school and hasn’t left publishing since. He moved on to Sports Illustrated, across the building to Sports Illustrated for Women, downtown to Discover magazine, then back to Sports Illustrated for a stint as Deputy Art Director. From there he crossed the street to Rolling Stone as Senior Art Director, before moving to SPIN to run the Art and Photo Departments as Design Director. He is currently Design Director of Runner's World and resides with his wife and son in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Gail Marowitz, Creative Director, Roadrunner Records
Gail Marowitz has been art directing and designing for the music business for nearly twenty years. She has worked for various labels including Tommy Boy Records, the Imago Recording Company, Wind-Up Records and Columbia Records where she was the Design Director for ten years collaborating with artists such as James Taylor, Patti Smith and Bette Midler. In 2006, she won a Grammy® Award for "Best Recording Package" for Aimee Mann's "The Forgotten Arm" and was nominated in the same category again in 2008 for Mann's latest release "@#%&*! Smilers". Her work has been selected for Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual and she was a recipient of a Silver Telly Award in 2008. Currently, she is the Creative Director at Roadrunner Records, a label whose stock in trade is mostly hard rock and heavy metal, a musical genre that favors illustration over photography.
Siung Tjia, Creative Director, ESPN The Magazine
Since 2004, Siung Tjia has been the Creative Director of ESPN The Magazine, having joined the department as Art Director of Special Projects in 2002. Before that, he was the Deputy Art Director at Rolling Stone magazine. Prior to his editorial career, Siung was the Vice-President, Senior Art Director of Calvin Klein and Senior Art Director at CRK Advertising and Barneys New York having honed his skills as Designer as the Art Director with Baron & Baron Advertising. Various projects have included art direction and design for the books Intimate and Beautiful by Marc Baptise for Rizzoli and The Art of Make Up for Callaway Editions; creative consulting for ibeauty.com; creative direction for ad campaigns for Issey Miyake’s FIRE perfume, Coccinella, F/W 98 and S/S 99, Mee & Kraft on Jil Sander’s Men’s Perfume and Lloyd + Co. on Majorica. Early on, Siung was the still photographer for three of Madonna’s videos – Erotica, Deeper & Deeper and Bad Girl.
Jason Treat, Art Director, The Atlantic
Jason Treat has been the art director for The Atlantic since December 2005. He previously served as the art director for Atlantic Media Company's creative services, designing in-house creative for The Atlantic, National Journal, Government Executive, The Hotline, and other publications.
Mark Heflin, AI-AP Director
Fred Woodward, AI-AP Chairman Emeritus
