Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 16:53, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > Photographers are like crabs in a bucket, crawling over one another, every > ready to undercut the other person. > As far as a union is concerned, The Newspaper Guild used to handle the PJ > photographers, but with very poor and weak representation. They've recently > been absorbed by the CWA, Communication Workers of America, an AFL-CIO > affiliate. The AP's shooters are all CWA. Somewhat like a shop union, you > have to join when you start working. > As far as the studio shooters are concerned, that's IATSI, usually referred > to as IA. One becomes a member by shooting X amount of time on non-union > jobs, that's right scab jobs, before one is qualified to be initiated into > the IA. I used to be in IATSE when I was working for Disney Feature Animation. Are you saying that production photographers need to be in IATSE? I thought they independent... > Also, the producer is the one hiring you, and you own none of the work you > produce, ever. As they represent the pinnacle, or at least own of the > peaks, > of the industry, they are proof that organized crime was never able to make > inroads into the movie business. Was there supposed to be wink there? Naw! > Maybe not. Well, it sort of makes sense that the studio would own the negatives, if you were hired to cover a production...The director of photography shooting the movie doesn't get to take the negative home either. ;-) Makes you wonder how Eve Arnold got to hold on to her negs, unless she was hired under different circumstances. Feli > S. Dimitrov