
Lessons Learned From Michele McNally
Two photographers share how Michele McNally, who shepherded a new age of photography at The New York Times, touched their lives and work.
She wanted to teach me photo editing to better inform my photography. For months, we met at 7 a.m. to look through 75 years of Fortune magazine photography at what is now called the Life Picture Collection. She’d explain to me her vision of a successful frame, what she looked for in a photographic composition and why some images had become icons. We’d sift through the hundreds of folders each morning before the workday began.