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When she starts on October 5, Pollack will take over a department that has seen some serious churn since the retirement of longtime director of photography Michele Stephenson in January 2007. Stephenson’s replacement, MaryAnne Golon, left in June 2008. Chief picture editor Alice Gabriner took over the department in 2008, only to leave in March of this year to join the photo staff at the Obama White House.
Like other magazines, TIME has had to make cuts in response to a bad advertising climate. Most recently, it suspended its twice-yearly Style & Design spinoff.
Pollack was deputy photo editor for The New York Times Magazine and photo editor for its spinoff real estate magazine, Key. She was also the photo editor for the Times’s sports magazine Play, which folded in 2008. From 1994 to 1998, she was associate photo editor at The New Yorker.
Working with Times Magazine director of photography Kathy Ryan, Pollack produced photographer Nadav Kander’s major portrait project, “ Obama’s People,” a series of 52 portraits of Obama administration members that was published the Sunday before the inauguration.*
The Times Magazine has won numerous photography awards and was nominated twice in the photojournalism category for the 2009 National Magazine Awards.
Pollack already has the respect of her new rival in newsweekly photography. Informed of her appointment, Newsweek director of photography Simon Barnett responded “Good choice.”
Related links:
Memo from TIME Managing Editor Rick Stengel
Coverage on the Times's Lens blog,
