Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1!! Excellent. I'll get you to write my letters in the future. Tina On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote: > "I thought you would like to know some idiot is sending out libelous and > slanderous emails over your signature. You'd better alert your lawyer > because I've alerted mine." > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Kyle Cassidy On The LUG < > leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > > > From the "Most outrageous letter to a photographer from a museum ever?" > > files. > > > > Documentary photographer Chris Arnade ( > > > http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-arnade-photos-of-bronx-addicts-2013-12 > ) > > found out today that one of his photographs is being included (without > his > > consent) in the exhibit ??Altered Images: 150 Years of Posed and > > Manipulated Documentary Photography? at the Bronx Documentary Center. > They > > let him know by sending him this email which I?m pretty sure is quite > > possibly the most outrageous unsolicited letter ever sent to an artist > from > > a museum (this all Via Chris Arnade?s tumblr, arnade.tumblr.com) -- how > > would you react? > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > Apologies for the late email, we are putting together a show on short > > notice and just finalizing the lineup. > > > > On Saturday we will open up our Altered Images exhibition, which examines > > posed, faked or manipulated documentary photography. A number of people > had > > suggested we include your work of substance abusers and sex workers. We > > have reviewed your work. You qualify on a number of levels and will be > > included. > > > > You admit to paying your subjects, which violates one of the most closely > > held tenets of documentary photography. Paying to photograph any person, > > particularly one dependent upon drugs, and even driving them to buy > drugs, > > as you say you have done, is a clear breach of ethics and standards. > > > > I see that you say claim, in interviews, an exemption from journalistic > > and documentary standards by saying you are not a journalist. Yet you > > publish your photos in the Guardian, one of the world?s most prestigious > > media outlets. Ethical guidelines apply. > > > > A key guideline of the National Press Photographers Assn reads: ?Treat > all > > subjects with respect and dignity. Give special consideration to > vulnerable > > subjects.? > > > > Your photos of sex workers, some addicted to drugs, some with mental > > health issues and/or severely emotionally abused, exposing their breasts > or > > bent naked over a bed, are a breach of this standard. The fact that you > > also publish these photos on Flickr, to be gawked at by thousands, raises > > further ethical issues too numerous to address here. > > > > Briefly, people who are paid by you, under the influence of drugs or > > mentally impaired (and in many cases have little understanding of The > > Guardian or Flickr), clearly do not have the ability to give informed > > consent to their photos being used as you have done. > > > > We will include a caption under your photo outlining these ethical > > breaches. If you so choose, you can send us up to two paragraphs in > > response and we will give it equal weight next to our caption. > > > > I?m ccing our lawyer, Don Dunn, in case you have any legal issues you > > choose to raise. > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone plz excuse the typoss keyb0ard is reaLly small. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html