Re: [Leica] The Decisive Moment or...sounds like another of those God Damn commie photographers is on some sort of socialist tear again!;-)

[Feliciano di Giorgio <feli@d2.com>]

Is Corbis owned by Microsoft?

feli


"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> FYI - from the email summary of
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> NEWS...
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> 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)
> 
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