The Photo Feed 02.20.08

McCain Photo-Ops Get A Fresh Look (Boston Globe)
Sen. John McCain knows he’ll likely face off against Sen. Barack Obama in November—and that means it’ll be a race between the old guard and the young new guard. Knowing just how unhip old white men can be, the 71-year-old presidential hopeful appears to be changing up his photo-op strategy. After Virginia’s February 12 primary, McCain took the stage before a group of old white-male politicians. But when he traveled to Wisconsin on Tuesday, McCain opted for a younger backdrop—what the Boston Globe’s Sasha Issenberg calls “an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog's worth of young and fresh-faced—although still apparently all-white—supporters.” McCain adviser Steve Duprey was reportedly overheard bragging, “Not a single middle-aged white guy back there today.”

Hearst Takes Advantage Of YouTube (Mediaweek)
Hearst Magazines has apparently figured out that people really like to check out videos online. The company has just launched YouTube channels for Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping and Seventeen and will be unveiling channels for another 12 mags in the near future. By encouraging readers to upload homemade videos for magazine-specific contests, Hearst seeks to increase its Web traffic and forge an online community. The company will share ad revenue generated through Hearst content with YouTube.

MORE BELOW: Lindsay Lohan inspires controversy by getting naked for the camera ... Are People's Christina Aguilera baby pix a flop ...

Lindsay Lohan Gets Naked, Inspires Talk (Radar / PDNPulse / L.A. Times / State of the Art / Amateur Photographer / People)
Leave it to Lindsay Lohan to inspire controversy. On Tuesday, we reported that Bert Stern photographed Lohan for this week’s cover of New York in a remake of an old Marilyn Monroe shoot. (In case you were wondering, Stern shot the pix on film and replicated everything on the original Monroe set, including the lighting.) Now everyone from Lohan’s publicist to the actress’s mother, Dina Lohan is weighing in. Lohan’s publicist Leslie Sloane Zelnik used the press to point out that the actress’s breasts are, in fact, real. (Way to help LiLo get some more roles!) But Zelnik also suggested that New York never made clear its plans to publish the nude photos from the shoot and that Stern had recommended less revealing pix for the magazine. Lohan’s manager-mother, Dina, meanwhile, praised Stern’s work, calling it an honor for her daughter to recreate the Monroe shoot and appear in such “tastefully done” nudes. David Schonauer at American Photo clearly doesn’t share Lohan's love. He said that Stern did Lohan “no favors” and that the actress looks like “a transvestite in that blond wig.” And the Los Angeles Times’s Monica Corcoran is appalled that Lohan, who said she’d never allow Hollywood to kill her the way it did Monroe, goes in and out of rehab and recreates a photo shoot of a suicidal woman’s “last flirtation with fame.” Corcoran is also disappointed in Stern for shooting what she calls a “21-year-old actress whose most notable credit is Herbie Fully Loaded.” (What about Mean Girls?!) So there you have it: if the Lohan was looking for some publicity, she more than got it.

Does People Have The Baby Blues? (New York Post)
Getty may have scored big when photog Regine Mahaux shot Christina Aguilera and baby Max for the cover of the February 15 issue. But was it worth the $1-2 million that People shelled out for the exclusive pix? Not really, according to the New York Post’s Keith J. Kelly, who reports that the issue is on target to sell only abut 1.3 million copies. But People managing editor Larry Hackett says it ain’t so. He insists that when the final numbers come in, the issue will have sold “healthily and within our expectations.”