Re: [Leica] Off-Topic: Butchering Eisenstaedt

[tedgrant@islandnet.com (Ted Grant)]

Hi Dave,

Sorry to dissillusion you, but these days there isn't anything sacrilegious
as long as money is involved. Hell the angles would sell the devil an image
if there was a possiblility of a dollar.

You're right that it borders on sacrilegious in relation to Esie. However,
in the economics of make money, buy/sell anything world of today, anything
can be bought for a price.

And Eisie's "Sailor kissing" photo has no more meaning than a few dollars
more to the rightful owners! We can be as offended as all get out, but
that's reality!    Very unfortunately.

ted

>I thought I'd seen everything when John Wayne showed up posthumously in
>a beer commercial, but this morning I was even more surprised when I
>picked up a computer magazine and found an ad for Dell computers that
>used Alfred Eisenstaedt's poignant and historical photograph of the
>Sailor and girl kissing.  Dell didn't simply include the picture in the
>ad with some clever caption.  Their "brilliant" ad agency put a Dell
>notebook computer in the girl's left hand.  For me, this borders on the
>sacrilegious.  At the very least it's disrespectful.
>
>Could it be that whoever owns the rights to that photo gave permission?
>Or is it possible that Dell's agency simply "borrowed" it?  I'd be very
>interested to know if anyone on the LUG knows.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Dave