Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chris Crawford > > > > Fine Art Photography > > > > Fort Wayne, Indiana > > > > 260-437-8990 > > > > > > > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > > > > > > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > > > > Like My Work on Facebook > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley > < > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > > *https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html > <https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html>* > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA