Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]FYI - from the email summary of - ------------------------------------------ NEWS... - ------------------------------------------ Decisive support by Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson has issued a blistering attack on one of the world's largest picture agencies in support of a group of photographers taking strike action. The legendary French photographer wrote a hand-written letter to the Corbis-Sygma employees who are striking against the agency's decision to lay-off 42 photojournalists and issue new contractual arrangements. 'I am scandalised by the casualness and the cruelty of the massive firing by Corbis of 42 Sygma photographers,' he writes. 'The compilation of an image bank, as well stocked as it might be, will never match the work of an author.' Corbis took over Sygma – formed in France 30 years ago – in 1999. In the two years since the take-over, losses have accelerated and photographers have been in perpetual dispute with their new employees. (Read more in this week's printed issue of BJP) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html