Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 29 Sep 2006 at 16:00, Tina Manley wrote: > At 12:11 PM 9/29/2006, you wrote: > >Flame me all you want but I realized two things - consumption has > >replaced democracy, and the image is the driving force behind > >consumption. It's all so rude. > > > >Chris Saganich - not happy with the world these days. > > I can understand your feelings, Chris, but that's what's happened to > documentary photography today. It's impossible to make a living just > doing documentary work. You have to sell it somehow, > somewhere. Salgado doesn't have to worry about that, I'm sure, but > the rest of us do. He may, too... wasn't he doing annual reports a couple of years ago? Volvo, I think, and a couple of others? I know Magnum has a bunch of shooters who more or less specialize in shoot-to-order and commissioned commercial work - they're the guys who keep the bills paid while the documentarians are out saving the world. Unfortunately, nobody who records the kind of things Salgado does is going to have a patron supporting him for the "greater good" the way someone doing celebrity or ideology asskissing would, and doing what he does the way he does it is not cheap. I think I read somewhere that he doesn't generally charge nonprofits for usage, either. -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request