Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Street photography
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 14:19:38 -0700
References: <001301bffbf6$1871c8e0$690110ac@ccapr.com>

><Snip> 
>  This thread raises some fairly interesting ethical questions - i.e., any
> journalist working for a publication of any repute is told to never
> misrepresent him or herself - if someone asks if you are a reporter, you
> acknowledge that you are - and if they ask the name of your publication, you
> provide it. Why shouldn't the same rule apply the other way - if some one
> asks who you're taking photos for, you say you're taking them for yourself.
> An SP shouldn't pose as a journalist any more than a journalist should pose
> as an SP, or a demonstrator, or a tourist, etc.
> 
> B. D.
> >

What if you've worked for a variety of publications but at that instant your not
sure which one of them might be buying the shots your doing at the moment but
you're pretty sure one will!?
Mark Rabiner
	been there
Cant' you LIE? :)
working for National Geographic, they just don't know it yet

In reply to: Message from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (RE: [Leica] Street photography)