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Subject: [Leica] Print's not Dead
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:55:48 -0400
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Darn it!
It used to be bigger in size and printed on newsprint.
It was Analog eBay. A paper for people to get to read the adds. And trade in 
the stuff they?ve owned for two months for something more fresh. But with 
phone calls and the mail.
Not so many people read the editorials.
I don?t know of another paper like that!!

If there is a plus side to the much fewer use of print on the trees which 
are left it may be that people just have more respect for a print now. It's 
not thought of it as junk with writing or an image on it.

 
 

-- 

Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

?On 3/12/19, 9:08 PM, "LUG on behalf of Sonny Carter via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
leica-users.org> wrote:

    I do believe the print version of Shutterbug is over.  I had a 
subscription
    for a couple decades, and a few months ago, they gave some ?Wired?
    magazines to run out my term.  It had gotten to be a mere shadow of 
itself,
    with  virtually  no classifieds.  The only thing keeping it going was a 
few
    pages of B&H.
    
    SonC
    
    On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 7:45 PM Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
    
    > I?m just back from the local Barnes and Noble in the Caf? which is my 
home
    > away from home hangout. I walk in the door and on my right are dozens 
of
    > racks of magazines and newspapers I'll grab one of and go up the 
stairs and
    > order an Earl Grey tea and read it for free. Then sometimes buy it! I 
could
    > not find a "Shutterbug" today so when I got back here just now I 
Googled it
    > to see if it went under. It didn?t. it's still there and the online
    > version. Maybe they just ran out at the bookstore I was just at. I hope
    > they're still getting it! I usually read it as do a lot of people. And 
I
    > still read Popular Photography. And dozens of news magazines and art
    > magazines.
    > When digital was invented a segment of people online rushed to say 
"film
    > is dead". There much be some kind of odd trill in making blanket
    > meaningless statements.
    > We live in an age now people just don?t want to put down their smart
    > phones. And many read their books and magazines and get their news 
feeds on
    > the same screen. Which is good because anything not on that screen they
    > have little interest in.
    > Printed news has been cut way back but very much still around.  Most
    > often  in the end the internet edition gets a lot more exposure.
    > The sign when I click on the email reads:
    > "If you're reading this, print's not dead. Subscribe to the Times 
Bulletin
    > Today." And it's being sold in a coin operated thing on the sidewalk. 
We
    > have fewer of those now on the sidewalks around here they used to be 
in a
    > line of a dozen different newspapers to choose from  and I'd take 
pictures
    > of them in the snow. And there used to be lot of phone booths.
    > Under it it says with some irony "Purchase a print" with a list of 
prices.
    > Its referring to photographs; a thing which exists on paper. And for 
every
    > paper photograph now there are a million jpegs. But I went to the 
Armory
    > Show last week and serious photography printing is thriving. But for a 
lot
    > of people even with hyper expensive cameras a jpeg is a photograph. I 
don?t
    > quite relate.
    > Also if you read the LUG there is a real faction of people saying that
    > photojournalism is dead.  That job does not exist anymore.
    > Big news to the thousands of  photojournalists hitting deadlines every
    > day. Working for the newspapers and magasines which don't exist any 
more.
    > The point of an image of a newspaper vending machine is that people put
    > quarters in and on the honor system take a newspaper out and read it. 
Its
    > evidence of an ongoing thing. Just look at the cover of the newspaper!
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    >
    > Mark William Rabiner
    > Photographer
    >
    > ?On 3/12/19, 6:44 PM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley via LUG"
    > <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
    > lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
    >
    >     I hope that continues to be true but I have my doubts.  As the WaPo
    > says,
    >     "Democracy dies in darkness."  It's pretty dark as local 
newspapers are
    >     closing by the hundreds.  On-line is just not the same.
    >
    >     Thanks for the reminder.
    >
    >     Tina
    >
    >     On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:44 PM Christopher Crawford <
    >     chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
    >
    >     > The sign on this newspaper machine says "Print's Not Dead. 
Subscribe
    >     > Today." It is in the small town of Convoy, Ohio and the paper is 
the
    > Van
    >     > Wert Times Bulletin.
    >     >
    >     >
    >     >
    >     > http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=3088
    >     >
    >     >
    >     >
    >     >
    >     >
    >     > --
    >     >
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    >     >
    >     > Fine Art Photography
    >     >
    >     > Fort Wayne, Indiana
    >     >
    >     > 260-437-8990
    >     >
    >     >
    >     >
    >     > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
    >     >
    >     >
    >     >
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    >     --
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    Regards,
    
    Sonny
    http://sonc.com/look/
    Natchitoches, Louisiana
    1714
    Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
    
    USA
    
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