Who is shooting 8x10 color nowadays?

[Neil Lukas]

8 x 10 is still used extensively in the worlds of Advertising, Magazine, Catalogs, "Fine Art" , and especially Illustration. Full page magazine ads (And an awful lot of covers), are almost always shot on 8 x 10 , as well as cars, trucks, jewelry, whiskey, .....I've even used it for Timex watch catalogs...when you have to fill the cover of an A-4 brocure with a killer image of the face of a ladies watch, it's the only way to go. And of course Joel Steinfeld, Richard Misrach, Richard Nixon, Sally Mann and others use it all the time. I believe Meyerwitz used it on his "Cape Light " series. Believe me, 8 x 10 is alive and well.

[Sal Santamaura]

Is Spiro Agnew still assisting Richard Nixon?

[kthompson]

He's busy blowing out holders right now...

[Joshua L. Slocum]

Neil:

Thanks for mentioning Joel! His name, actually, is Sternfeld, not Steinfeld, but I'm glad someone mentioned him nonetheless. He's a good friend of mine, and was my mentor in college. He has never worked in anything but 8x10, and his explanation of this, and his body of work did more to impress and form a class of snotty, how-come-my-pitchers-didn't-come-out college kids into real, thinking photographers than any amount of electronica. I spoke with him a few months ago, and he was taking the 8x10 to Europe to shoot the G8 protesters - documentary style!