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Credit for TIME'S lively use of graphics is shared by Art Director David Merrill and Picture Editor John Durniak. Newshound Durniak brings his tireless enthusiasm 15 hours a day to half a dozen tasks at once: arguing for more "cuts" in the magazine, urging extensive coverage of pictorially rich news events, phoning photographers halfway round the world to tell them that their exposure meters need adjustment. "Journalism starts with visual observation," Durniak says. "The eye is the mother of the brain...
Among the more outlandish guests in TIME homes are a toad, Pierrot, kept by Deputy Chief of Correspondents Benjamin Cate's children, two raccoons belonging to Senior Editor Marshall Loeb's daughter, Margaret, and Picture Editor John Durniak's boa constrictor, Charlie. Legends about TIME pets breed like rabbits. Show Business Secretary Esther Nichols' parakeet, Rosebud, is said to have been rescued from an attempted suicide after diving from a fifth-floor window overlooking Madison Avenue, while Copy Desk Assistant Judith Paul's late Chihuahua-terrier crossbreed, Cookie, was known to hunt bees, crack walnuts...
...assigning and culling of the photographs for each issue of TIME-a task that sometimes requires the clairvoyance of a fortune-teller and the shrewdness of a sleuth- is carried out by ten picture researchers under the direction of Picture Editor John Durniak and Assistant Picture Editor Michele Stephenson. In the course of an average week, between 10,000 and 15,000 separate pictures, most of them tiny prints on contact sheets, will be inspected by the staff before a selection of the best of them are blown up to 8-in. by 10-in. size; from that group...
...process begins when the various sections of the magazine schedule their stories. Along with queries asking for reports from our correspondents in news bureaus round the world go wires requesting and suggesting pictures. "TIME'S photographers," says Durniak, "are seeking in their subjects glances and gestures-visual facts-that add information-not decoration-to the text." For this week's cover story Pulitzer Prizewinning Photographer David Hume Kennerly shot 14 rolls of film of James St. Clair to produce the photos that appear in the magazine; one became the cover portrait...
TIME recently had the problem of assembling pictures of a Vice President who had yet to be picked. "We made a guess," says Durniak, "and assigned a photographer to cover Jerry Ford before he was chosen." By the time Ford was nominated, we had already sent a color photograph to the engraving plant for the Oct. 22 cover...