January 02, 2009
Quick Before It Disappears
JPG Magazine, a radical idea in publishing, is going under.
JPG was an attempt to create a photography magazine that relied on its readers for its content and included them in the editing process. Nearly 200,000 photographers have submitted photographs for consideration to JPG, many of them via Flickr. The site itself was able to attract about 300,000 unique U.S. viewers a month (Quantcast), but its business model relied on selling print ads. And that’s a business you don’t want to be in right now, especially if you are a startup with an artsy photo mag that was never very appealing to advertisers.
You can download whole issues in pdf form from the site before it vanishes on Monday. Highly recommended
If you're proceeding at a more leisurely pace, enjoy the panorama of Budapest in winter - for closer views, scroll through Dakota last year
Photo note: This is a surreptitious photo of a sculpture glued gunned by Tara Donovan from plastic cups currently on display at the IICA Boston - it ain't gonna last that long either. Overheard in the gallery "I didn't know Martha Stewart was exhibiting"