[Leica] Peter Lik’s Recipe for Success: Sell Prints. Print Money. - NYTimes.com

[Sonny Carter]

In the sixties, when I was covering the marches, I wished my Spectra incident meter would have had a brown hemisphere instead of white.

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Sonny Carter

> On Feb 22, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> I did notice it was the lead story in the business section, as opposed to art and leisure.  And then if you go to the photography section in the magazine ("A True Picture of Black Skin"), you will learn that "cameras and the mechanical tools of photography have rarely made it easy to photograph black skin".   But, one can work around these unfriendly tools, such as adjusting a light meter for black skin.  Another revelation was that film emulsions were calibrated for white skin, and thus don't work will with black, brown or red skin.
> 
> Ken
> 
>> On 2/21/2015 9:22 PM, Matt Kollasch wrote:
>> Peter Lik
>> ​ is, as my father used to say, "laughing all the way to the bank." In my
>> mind if you are IN Caesars Palace you ARE the joke.​ But what do I know, I
>> am no Peter Lik, a man rich in confidence. Never heard of him till this
>> article, though.
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#
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