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PICTURE EDITOR: Michele Stephenson...
...Meissner effect, named after German Physicist Walther Meissner, is defined as the exclusion of a magnetic field. The Stephenson effect, named after TIME Picture Editor Michele Stephenson, is defined as the solution to the problem of producing a perfect photograph to illustrate an impossibly complex story. The picture behind Stephenson, in which a swinging ceramic ball is being repelled by a horseshoe magnet, is an ingenious portrayal of superconductivity, one of the most promising new scientific frontiers. The Meissner effect picture by TIME's Bill Pierce, which appeared in our Aug. 10, 1987, issue, won the prestigious Budapest Award, given...
...award enhanced TIME's reputation as one of the world's premier showcases for photojournalism. At the Amsterdam competition, the magazine won eleven of the 55 prizes, more than any other news publication. That was a gratifying welcome for Stephenson, who became picture editor 2 1/2 months ago. A native of Washington, she joined the magazine in 1966. After spending eleven years as a picture and text researcher, she left TIME to become picture editor of US magazine, then assistant managing editor of Look. She returned in 1979 as a deputy picture editor, and was appointed to her current post...
...Stephenson spends most of her time deploying a small army of photographers around the world -- solving their logistical problems, salving their egos and astonishing the editors with her ability to come up with a remarkable picture under appalling circumstances. Her first big test was the Winter Olympics in Calgary, where disruptively high winds played havoc with the schedules, tempers and complexions of TIME's twelve-member photo team. "The photographers were going crazy," she says. "It seemed as if almost every time they showed up for an event it got canceled." Stephenson's current challenge is the U.S. presidential campaign...
PICTURE EDITOR: Michele Stephenson...