[Leica] Print's not Dead

[Sonny Carter]

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 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!
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> 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.
>     >
>     >
>     >
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>     >
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Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA