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Since French Publisher Daniel Filipacchi revived Look magazine in February, seven years after it folded, the glossy, large-format biweekly has been a nice place to visit, but not many journalists managed to live there. Fifteen editorial employees were fired or forced out, including Managing Editor John Durniak; Executive Editor Marianne Partridge resigned after five issues. For a time, new sackings seemed to come at the end of every week, a ritual that became known around the magazine's Manhattan offices as "Black Friday...
Anticipating that any major news developments in the Middle East would revolve around the leaders of Egypt and Israel, TIME Picture Editor John Durniak last July commissioned Photographer David Hume Kennerly to shoot a portfolio of pictures of both President Anwar Sadat and Premier Menachem Begin. Durniak's prescience paid off. Our cover story this week on the Egyptian President and his mission to Jerusalem is enhanced by four pages of Kennerly's intimate color photographs of Sadat and his Israeli host...
...Morris Gordon Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Communication to Picture Editor John Durniak...
...story. "What we wanted to do," says Loeb, "was tell this complicated story in a coherent way. That meant explaining how Patty Hearst was captured and what she did while in hiding, and exploring the state of her mind and the likely outcome of events." Picture Editor John Durniak and Art Director David Merrill quickly assigned photographers and artists respectively to provide possible illustrations...
...seen in this show remains extraordinary. One of his colleagues once said that Avedon was the white mechanical rabbit that all other photographers tried to catch but never did. The rabbit is out on the track again, and he is still ahead of the rest of the field. John Durniak...