[Leica] Print's not Dead

[Mark Rabiner]

I’m just back from the local Barnes and Noble in the Café 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!

 
 

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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
    
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