| of the magazine was visual. You always had a strong photoessay in the middle, which was usually news related. A lot of our stories were the first to be published in the world, like the Reagan assassination attempt, which we got out very quickly the day after. That was a fast moving magazine but unfortunately it closed after eighteen months because it wasn't making any money."
Did that set the seed for Reportage?
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"Not really. Where you could say it planted a seed was my realising that the best photography always comes from a particular individual's perspective. The way the photographer sees the story is the difference between ordinary photography and memorable photography."
Another lesson he took from Now, was that a good picture magazine does not need
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high profile writing staff. The major very good learning school because at that time it was definitely the most influential magazine in thinput should be visual not textual. But he is adamant that this is not the same as saying that good captioning and well written text cannot enhance an already powerful set of pictures.
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