Showcase: A Magazine Worth Its Price ($25) – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com

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Showcase: A Magazine Worth Its Price ($25) – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

Gary Knight can’t help himself. He has to go against common wisdom.

When photo agencies were converging and getting bigger, he helped found VII, a collectively owned boutique agency that produces the finest photojournalism. When experts on popular opinion said that content wanted to be free and that audience attention spans were shrinking, he helped start Dispatches, an intellectual journal, in words and photographs, that costs $25 for each quarterly edition.