[Leica] Critiques

[Jim Nichols]

Tina,

I thought textbooks were a disappearing commodity.  Are you selling 
images for digital textbooks?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/4/2015 3:25 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> I'm taking photographs to sell to textbooks.
>
> Tina
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:32 PM, George Lottermoser <
> george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> On May 3, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>
>>> So what is the answer to getting no response at all from the e-mail
>> lists?
>>> The reason I post is to get feedback.  If I don't get it, there is no
>>> reason to post.  When I post on various Facebook pages, Leica ones
>>> especially, I get lots of hits and responses.  Why not here?
>> I always use IMG (as single image) or IMGs (multiple images) when I post
>> an image link.
>> Not to indicate that I WANT or NEED a "CRITIQUE" but simply to say, "a
>> picture link if you want to look."
>>
>> If we want or need a Serious Critique then ask for it.
>> I feel like we talked about this a week or two back.
>>
>> I taught graphic design for dozen semesters at Columbia College Chicago.
>> I consider Serious Critiques of Art Work (of whatever sort) a fairly time
>> consuming task.
>>
>> The last time this came up I put a list out to you; as in Critique to
>> accomplish what sort of edit.
>> You responded, "all of the above."
>>
>> IMO that neutralizes any potential usefulness or any Serious Critique.
>>
>> Every photograph you take while traveling in "foreign" countries, or even
>> around the farm, will have some potential value to someone somewhere.
>> Almost all of us are producing photograph that may serve some useful
>> purpose to someone somewhere. Though we are not all producing a body of
>> work which may have any significant effect on the "History of Photography;"
>> or the "History of Photo Journalism;" or the "Whatever."
>>
>> In my opinion Doug Herr is producing a quality of work, with an educated
>> and enlightened vision, which is actually adding to the "History of
>> Photography in the Field of Ornithology." I believe (though I don't know)
>> he may have created some of the best photographs of certain specimens in
>> existence; as in "the one to beat."
>>
>> Chris Crawford documents deeply and widely in geographic areas and forms a
>> body of work with a powerfully strong personal vision which is almost
>> unmistakable.
>>
>> Steve has done medical work which stands alone in empathy and intelligence.
>>
>> At one time, Tina, I thought I knew what you were doing. And I believe
>> that you did create a strong coherent body of work from some specific
>> locations. You were photographing to a specific purpose; and meeting the
>> goals of the client who commissioned the work.
>>
>> At this point, when you say that you're shooting for stock to appeal to
>> any all potential markets world wide; without focusing on any particular
>> unique styling or with anything in particular to say about any unique area;
>> I can't imagine how to "Critique the Photography."
>>
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>>
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>
>>
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