Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/10

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Subject: [Leica] Lament for a dying field
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:30:02 +0530
References: <1be504db0908101304k3d593c80pe8cb9f291800a359@mail.gmail.com> <48CE41FC-CE63-4C41-8F43-345C08225B0E@mac.com>

"No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by
underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." -
H.L.Mencken 1926

This problem has been around for a long time!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:06 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at 
mac.com>wrote:

> When I referred to adjunct "corporate work"
> I intended to mean commercial work which pays far more
> than corporate media pays for editorial work.
>
> So if we're doing annual report work for Enron for $35,000
> will we also do an expos? on Enron for $3,000?
> (pardon the hypothetical - yet, that's the paradox)
>
> As far as "they" I assume you mean the mass market.
>
> It would seem that we must seek and develop the smaller markets
> which do have an interest in deep news and stories.
>
> Just yesterday - I had this OMG reaction to Huffington Post's current
> headlines - the majority of which look like tabloid bull s**t.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
> On Aug 10, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Phil Swango wrote:
>
>  Point taken, but all those Life Magazine photogs we so admire worked for
>> Time, Inc.  Even Walker Evans worked for Fortune.  Newspaper photogs work
>> for corporations too.
>>
>> As for as what the readership wants, they want celebrity news and photos.
>>  They would *way* rather see a blurry phonecam snap of Britney's (bleep)
>> or
>> Michael Jackson's surgically manufactured grimace than any Salgado essay
>> about ecological damage in the Amazon.  Newspapering's a tough business
>> these days.
>>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from pswango at att.net (Phil Swango) ([Leica] Lament for a dying field)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Lament for a dying field)