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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: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:56:12 -0700

the are - to some extent.  But it's like the mom and pop stores trying to
band together to fight Walmart... it's a tough fight

tim a

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Roland
> Smith
> Sent: February 12, 2002 9:35 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The Decisive Moment or...sounds like another of
> those God Damn commie photographers is on some sort of socialist tear
> again!;-)
>
>
> Why don't the displaced photographers form their own association and go
> after the business of their former employer?
>
> In other service professions that is what happens.
>
> Lawyers do this when separated from their law firm as do CPAs, architechs,
> engineers and others.
>
> Roland Smith, CPA
> Oakland, California
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:01 PM
> Subject: [Leica] The Decisive Moment or...sounds like another of those God
> Damn commie photographers is on some sort of socialist tear again!;-)
>
>
> > 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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