Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D.- I fully support HGB in his commentary on the Sygma firing. You must not be a working photographer represented by a picture agency or news organization or you would understand. I was a gamma contributor , not large, but I did contribute. With the Getty takeover I am just getting paid now for images sold before and after takeover. Some payments were pre getty and dated 1994. Just paid now. In Canada as a freelancer for the Canwest-Southam group, if the national paper or the TV broadcaster that owns the paper needs my photo from the local paper, they are only obligated to pay $6.25 for the photo. The great Henri Cartier-Bresson would not tolerate this abuse of photogs trying to earn a living. Kevin Argue St. Catharines, Ontario Canada - ---------- >From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] The Decisive Moment or...sounds like another of those God Damn commie photographers is on some sort of socialist tear again!;-) >Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2002, 5:01 PM > > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html