Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo school or what? - Magazine schools...
From: John Straus <Mail@SlideOne.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 16:12:39 -0600

on 1/2/02 3:23 PM, Jeffery L.Smith at jsmith45@bellsouth.net wrote:

> I always wonder if anyone joins the New York Photography Institute (the
> one in UK magazines with a photo of a young girl, cross-eyed with a
> large fake looking bug on her nose). If they want serious students, that
> cannot be the way to get them.
> 
> We are much more sophisticated in the New World, with art school ads in
> match books in which you are asked to copy the face of a pirate. Now,
> THAT'S ART!

Those 'schools' get a lot of response, how else do you think they can
repeatedly take out 1/2 or full page adds in multiple mags...? It really a
'paper' school as far as I know. They send you material, you read, go shoot,
and see if your shots look like their examples ;)
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John 
Chicago, IL 
http://SlideOne.com
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