Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> There, you have an exception, as this the top of the food chain in the > american PJ world. It's akin to being designated poet laureate of the > nation. The presidential photographers come out of the PJ world. It's > like being on special assignment, except where it wouldn't last much > longer than a few days to a few months in other cases, this one lasts > for 4-8 years. The work becomes part of the public archive as it is. and is just a PR photographer for the President - if the photographer was a PJ he ain't any more. He makes the Pres look heroic, one of the people, Churchillian or whatever. Anything else that gets through is a result of seeing all the contacts and negs the photographer made, when they are released eons down the road, by which time the Pres. is probably dead and doesn't care. (I guess the only exception is Nixon, who always just looked like - well Tricky Dicky ). Oh, the photographs make an interesting "insider" historical record, but an entirely biased one If the Photographer to the President is to be considered a PJ, then so is the corporate photographer for Krispy Kreme donuts. Tim A PS - Poet Laureate is an entirely honourary position (okay, maybe a small stipend) - the poet - e.g. Ted Hughes - produces the odd poem for the Queen or whoever, while carrying on their own creative work. I'm sure they'd love to have a nice Whitehouse Salary, although I imagine most would consider it selling their soul... - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html