The Photo Feed 04.10.08

Arbus Auction Cancelled (New York Times)
People hoping to bid on some rare Diane Arbus prints at the Phillips de Pury auction house on Tuesday got some bad news at the last minute: the auction had been cancelled. According to Peter R. Stern, the attorney for the images’ owner Bob Langmuir, the decision to cancel was spurred by a lawsuit by a collector who’d been told a private sale was still a possibility. Bayo Ogunsanya sued Langmuir in federal court, claiming he was unaware of the value of Arbus’ images of performers at Hubert’s Dime Museum and Flea Circus when he sold them to Langmuir for $3,500 in 2003.

Photogs: Fashion’s Real Storytellers (New York Times)
“If fashion shows are a way for a designer to think out loud,” says The New York Times’ Cathy Horyn, “collaborations with a photographer can help spin those disparate ideas into a story.” Topping the list of fashion storytelling greats are Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and, most recently, Juergen Teller, who has been collaborating with fashion provocateur Marc Jacobs for more than a decade. Together, Teller and Jacobs have documented the “distractions and tastes of the moment” with images of celebrities like Sofia Coppola and Winona Ryder “generally doing nothing in the Seinfeldian sense.”

MORE BELOW: Another photo flap for OK! ... Writer questions New York's choice of cover imagery ...

Why Can’t They Be ‘Just Friends’? (Huffington Post / PDNPulse)
OK! seems desperate for Jennifer Aniston to find love. The cover of this week’s edition shows an image of actor Orlando Bloom with his arm around Jen, accompanied by the headline “More than just friends.” The problem? That image is actually a cropped—and then flipped—photo of Bloom with his arms around both Aniston and actress Eva Langoria. This cover flap comes is just the latest for OK!. Last week’s cover used a 2003 image of Britney Spears to claim that the struggling pop star has lost 15 pounds in 2008.

Is This New York? (Huffington Post)
Writer Jessica Wakefield is a New York magazine diehard. But she’s not keen on the mag’s 40th anniversary cover. Accompanied by the headline “This is New York: 1968-2008,” the cover features images of 25 of the city’s heavyweights. And 21 of those, says Wakefield, are men, almost all white.