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Conor Clarke - Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. More

Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism, an economics blog that was recently published in book form by Simon and Schuster. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. He is also on Twitter.
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Gales of Creative Destruction Hit Photography

By Conor Clarke

Apr 27 2009, 4:53 PM ET Comment

It seems unlikely that photographs will ever die, but will photography? Esquire's cover this month -- Transformers' Megan Fox -- was shot in video, with a single frame selected for the cover. I can't tell the difference. So I wonder: will we need still-frame photography in the future if video cameras can do the trick?


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