[Leica] Making a living as a photographer

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

My own definition of the art directors who don't let the photographers do
their jobs is "paste up artist".. recently promoted.


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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
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mark at rabinergroup.com
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> From: Kyle Cassidy <leicaslacker at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:58:28 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Making a living as a photographer
> 
> Oh, no, for sure. some photography is work.
> 
> Some of it's not bad work, some of it's decent work, some of it's good 
> work,
> some of it, even, is Very Awesome work -- but some of it is 
> loading-boxes-type
> hideous clock-watching work.
> 
> The "work" bit of it is often when someone who's not an art director has 
> Very
> Specific Instructions for what they want.  And when it's made clear that
> you're the help, not the creative talent, it's work. And when you get 
> allotted
> 60 seconds for a portrait from someone who will later complain they don't 
> like
> any of the 16 photos you took, it's work.
> 
> But the same thick skin that gets you through gallery reviews is the same
> thick skin that reminds you that you don't need to put the cliched shots
> someone else came up with in your portfolio, and the things that Would Have
> Been Better Had They Listened To You -- you just take them and use the
> paycheck to fun the stuff that you want to be working on.
> 
> As Kurt Vonnegut would say: "And so it goes."
>