Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I have been wondering why so much recycled rubbish is presented as fresh > new > and creative; as work to aspire to. It seems that the answer is that the > artificial creation by big money of massive impersonal stock libraries is > destroying good photography. > So should we leave stock photography for the robots and make do without an > M9 > unless we have an independent income? > > Gordon I don't think that massive impersonal stock libraries is destroying good photography as the people doing good photography ignore them. They've found no reason to have heard of it. The images I see in magazines and on the walls of galleries have never been better. Photography is doing fine. Stock is accessible on the internet to just about anybody who wants to justify a large slice of their personal wealth being tied up in camera gear. And get tax write-offs on it. So we get lots of people willing to work for nothing. In the 80s and 90s stock was an option in making a living doing photography. But now its just real tough. Somebody wanting to be do pro photography will just have to get real clients! Tons of stock agencies out there not just the bad biggies. There will always be a market for quality work the problem is seldom the market its the individual professional artist craftsman; or lack of. Photography has more than its share of shock artists. Much more than its share. To me they're the enemy more than the idiots out there who just want the lowest bidder. There will always be those guys. Mark William Rabiner