Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The Decisive Moment or...sounds like another of those God Damn commie photographers is on some sort of socialist tear again!;-)
From: "Kevin Argue" <kargue@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:26:16 -0500

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

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>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)
>
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