Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is a lot for me to think about from this discussion. I'm very grateful for everyone's patience and honest opinions. Stock libraries evidently prompt strong views. I have to reconsider my prejudices and do some hard work. I'm so glad I don't have to study the market trends. I had visions of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. I'll let you know how it goes. Gordon Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 9:35:48 AM, you wrote: MR> I don't think that massive impersonal stock libraries is destroying good MR> photography as the people doing good photography ignore them. They've found MR> no reason to have heard of it. MR> The images I see in magazines and on the walls of galleries have never been MR> better. Photography is doing fine. MR> Stock is accessible on the internet to just about anybody who wants to MR> justify a large slice of their personal wealth being tied up in camera gear. MR> And get tax write-offs on it. So we get lots of people willing to work for MR> nothing. In the 80s and 90s stock was an option in making a living doing MR> photography. But now its just real tough. Somebody wanting to be do pro MR> photography will just have to get real clients! MR> Tons of stock agencies out there not just the bad biggies. MR> There will always be a market for quality work the problem is seldom the MR> market its the individual professional artist craftsman; or lack of. MR> Photography has more than its share of shock artists. Much more than its MR> share. To me they're the enemy more than the idiots out there who just want MR> the lowest bidder. There will always be those guys. MR> Mark William Rabiner MR> _______________________________________________ MR> Leica Users Group. MR> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Best wishes, lindnich mailto:lindnich at tesco.net