Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] ELEKTRONIX
From: Henry Ambrose <henryambrose@home.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 16:07:01 -0500

>I'm simply curious about how work like Salgado's (or HCB's, or Capa's, or
>Smith's, etc., etc.) somehow or other passes from the sphere of committed,
>humanitarian photography intended ideally for mass distribution into that
>of the art gallery, museum and coffee table book, aimed at a limited, but
>well-defined market. Perhaps it's just a characteristic of western society,
>which tends to relate to the world in consumerist terms, perhaps it's
>something more, I don't know. It's a question that I find both troubling
>and interesting, and am happy to see it addressed here on the list.
>
>Guy

To support themselves, I suspect. 
Read the latest edition of Digital Journalist. 
(http://digitaljournalist.org/)

Henry