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Subject: [Leica] Critiques
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 17:07:12 -0400
References: <CA+yJO1Br5O4B3vCzSpY5Oz1Vrg5OaD2cGCPkX=pRdtXZJu--Rg@mail.gmail.com> <CA+yJO1D4EknAfirHmx_iTskWDirSDaeKxhaXw-c7A4wi4PoDYA@mail.gmail.com> <DC5E1DF8-0EC1-42BC-9BD9-C970C5F880C9@icloud.com> <CA+yJO1AP=rorNCGPeD3A_GNJZuadFQDwgCkz+F6cZPCpXXpPPw@mail.gmail.com> <5547D75F.50501@lighttube.net>

Here is a sample sale from last week:

Country: Worldwide
Usage: Editorial
Media: Book, print and/or e-book
Print run: Unlimited
Placement: Inside
Image Size: 2 page spread
Start: 01 January 2016
End: 01 January 2041
All terms and rights granted as per the Alamy Preferred Vendor Agreement
dated 26th January 2010 prevail. Flat rate per image, license period 20
years.

Unlimited print run, 2 page spread, worldwide, print and e-book, for 25
years and I get 50% of $180.  When I started in stock, the lease would have
been for one year at the most and renewed every year they used it.  The
price for one use would have been closer to $1000.

It's a tough market for photographers these days!

TIna

$ 180.00

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:

> Tina,
>
> I thought textbooks were a disappearing commodity.  Are you selling images
> for digital textbooks?
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 5/4/2015 3:25 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> I'm taking photographs to sell to textbooks.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:32 PM, George Lottermoser <
>> george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
>>
>>  On May 3, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>>
>>>  So what is the answer to getting no response at all from the e-mail
>>>>
>>> lists?
>>>
>>>> The reason I post is to get feedback.  If I don't get it, there is no
>>>> reason to post.  When I post on various Facebook pages, Leica ones
>>>> especially, I get lots of hits and responses.  Why not here?
>>>>
>>> I always use IMG (as single image) or IMGs (multiple images) when I post
>>> an image link.
>>> Not to indicate that I WANT or NEED a "CRITIQUE" but simply to say, "a
>>> picture link if you want to look."
>>>
>>> If we want or need a Serious Critique then ask for it.
>>> I feel like we talked about this a week or two back.
>>>
>>> I taught graphic design for dozen semesters at Columbia College Chicago.
>>> I consider Serious Critiques of Art Work (of whatever sort) a fairly time
>>> consuming task.
>>>
>>> The last time this came up I put a list out to you; as in Critique to
>>> accomplish what sort of edit.
>>> You responded, "all of the above."
>>>
>>> IMO that neutralizes any potential usefulness or any Serious Critique.
>>>
>>> Every photograph you take while traveling in "foreign" countries, or even
>>> around the farm, will have some potential value to someone somewhere.
>>> Almost all of us are producing photograph that may serve some useful
>>> purpose to someone somewhere. Though we are not all producing a body of
>>> work which may have any significant effect on the "History of
>>> Photography;"
>>> or the "History of Photo Journalism;" or the "Whatever."
>>>
>>> In my opinion Doug Herr is producing a quality of work, with an educated
>>> and enlightened vision, which is actually adding to the "History of
>>> Photography in the Field of Ornithology." I believe (though I don't know)
>>> he may have created some of the best photographs of certain specimens in
>>> existence; as in "the one to beat."
>>>
>>> Chris Crawford documents deeply and widely in geographic areas and forms
>>> a
>>> body of work with a powerfully strong personal vision which is almost
>>> unmistakable.
>>>
>>> Steve has done medical work which stands alone in empathy and
>>> intelligence.
>>>
>>> At one time, Tina, I thought I knew what you were doing. And I believe
>>> that you did create a strong coherent body of work from some specific
>>> locations. You were photographing to a specific purpose; and meeting the
>>> goals of the client who commissioned the work.
>>>
>>> At this point, when you say that you're shooting for stock to appeal to
>>> any all potential markets world wide; without focusing on any particular
>>> unique styling or with anything in particular to say about any unique
>>> area;
>>> I can't imagine how to "Critique the Photography."
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> George Lottermoser
>>>
>>> http://www.imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>>
>>>
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>>
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Replies: Reply from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Critiques)
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Message from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Critiques)
Message from george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Critiques)
Message from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Critiques)
Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Critiques)