Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> I've never been hired for anything but my portfolio or reputation since 1975 > when I started I've not had one single client ask me if I had any kind of degree > ahead of time. You'd have thought it would have come up in the conversation > interview once but I cant recall it.<<< Hi Mark, Allow me to add to your post on having a degree to qualify for an assignment or as a photographer. My first published photographs, 17 Sept 1951 were published because they were good and did the job I was given. Not that I had formal photographic training or a piece of paper indicating a degree. Not to belittle the many thousands of photographers who hold a degree, as that's an honorable way to gain an education, however it doesn't guarantee one will be a successful photographer. A great business person maybe. And in the ensuing 50 years I've faced off with hundreds of art directors and photo editors and have never been asked if I held a college degree, not that I didn't wish I did, but certainly not for photography. As the only thing that counts is...... "How well do you use your cameras and what you produce with them." Art directors, photo editors and buyers of photographer services don't give a flying hoop whether your as dumb as a door knob or as brilliant as Einstein, as they're only concerned in one thing "How good a photographer are you?" In a general sense of formal education, a photographer requires a solid business understanding, how to sell and market themselves and how to be socially astute with people of all classes. yep and a number of things to many to write. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html