[Leica] How would you respond?

[Tina Manley]

+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.
> >
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