Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison wrote: <<<It is a proven fact a weak story with excellent art will get better play in publication. After all most people only look at the photos anyway! >>>> Hi Harrison, An interesting thing missed by people who cast photographers aside as nobodies is that "how come we and our work are so important all the time to sell magazines, newspapers and you name everything for sale?" I haven't seen too many ads with only text to sell cameras, Mercedes, computers etc. In particular newspapers where the photographers most often are an add on after thought at the bottom of the pile in the newspapers grand scheme of things. hell if it weren't for the dynamic news photos on the front page in many cases, a great number of papers would still be in the boxes at the end of the day. Magazines for example know that the "right cover photo" will sell out an edition quicker than a mag with a lousy cover photo. In these days of reading illitracy the photograph is the most powerdul selling tool manufacturers & publishers have! ted