[Leica] Print's not Dead
Mark Rabiner
mark at rabinergroup.com
Tue Mar 12 18:55:48 PDT 2019
Darn it!
It used to be bigger in size and printed on newsprint.
It was Analog eBay. A paper for people to get to read the adds. And trade in the stuff they’ve owned for two months for something more fresh. But with phone calls and the mail.
Not so many people read the editorials.
I don’t know of another paper like that!!
If there is a plus side to the much fewer use of print on the trees which are left it may be that people just have more respect for a print now. It's not thought of it as junk with writing or an image on it.
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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
On 3/12/19, 9:08 PM, "LUG on behalf of Sonny Carter via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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 <
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> > 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
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1714
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