{"id":7702,"date":"2020-11-13T06:21:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2020-11-18T21:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T21:45:52","slug":"gear-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/?p=7702","title":{"rendered":"Gear Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Phillip Wong Photography<\/span><\/h5>\n
Editorial<\/span><\/h6>\n

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Gear Magazine<\/span><\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gear Magazine was a publication that emerged when Maxim and FHM made their way over from Britain and their explosive success revealed latent markets in America.
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gear was different, but couldn’t brand itself differently. Gear was started by Bob Guccione, Jr. who had launched Spin Magazine earlier, and who’s father had brought Penthouse to America from Britain. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Edgy, offbeat, but serious about a new crop of artists, actors, musicians, emerging and defining a new culture, Gear recognized my informal, direct and honest approach matched their perspective with my photographs of Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron, and brought me onboard. They asked me to pitch personalities and story proposals.
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As I saw how they developed layouts, graphics and content, I quickly saw the potential in his vision.
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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text] Phillip Wong Photography Editorial [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text] Gear Magazine [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gear Magazine was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-editorial","category-portraits","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7995,"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillipwongphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}