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Subject: [Leica] NOW: Documentary Still Photography - was: In defence of the newspapers
From: imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)
Date: Thu Apr 10 11:36:32 2008
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Interesting - Can we continue to brain-storm this a bit?
Let us move away from "newspapers" and apply your model to  
Documentary Still Photography (with or without accompanying in depth  
words.
Among photographers there remains an intense interest in Documentary  
Still Photographs, essays, etc.
Kyle has proven that the right subject/style can find a market in the  
book market.
Life and Look have long passed.
The internet is the NOW medium.
Blurb; Lulu; allow for publishing whatever one would like.

Does the larger public (other than photographers) actually want  
quality, still, documentary images in any form (inkjet prints, self  
published books, internet jpg's, et al)?
What ever happened to CDrom books? ebooks?

How does one take the current possibilities and form a business model  
with earning potential - however minimal?

Fond regards,
George
george@imagist.com
www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07



On Apr 10, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Richard Man wrote:
> So what was good with journalism? The in depth analysis. The  
> quality, the editorial integrity. For newspaper to survive, they  
> need to figure out how to preserve their strength in a changing world.


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Message from imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George) ([Leica] In defence of the newspapers)
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