Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/25

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT Arnold Newman
From: Carl Pultz <cpultz@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:06:40 -0500

Tim,

Great story. Yeah, go dig up Stravinsky! But, go easy; are kids to blame 
that they haven't been taught who their cultural icons are?

I heard Newman speak at RIT in the 80s and he was very nice, generous to 
the students, still devoted to bettering photography. His tale about 
photographing Krupp was memorable, a Jewish photographer confronting a 
German exploiter of slave labor. Look at how he lit him!

When I saw the subject line, I thought, "Oh, no. He's died." Happy that's 
not the case.

Carl

ref:

"He got a call from one of the big mags (forget who it was now, Vanity Fair,
maybe still Life one such, anyway). It was the (probably bright young thing)
assistant photo editor, who by the sound of it, had no idea of Newman's
photographic reputation. They wanted to use the famous picture of
Stravinsky - his response was - certainly, and this is how much the usage
fee is - a very nice tidy sum (of course, nothing less than such a picture
is worth). There was a combined gasp and nervous giggle and the girl on the
phone told him - Oh no, we would never pay anything like that - our rate is
$225.00 (or some such insulting fee). To which Arnold replied - fine - go
get someone else to shoot it - and put the phone down.

Well, Stravinsky being long dead, a couple of hours later there was a very
apologetic call from the Photo Editor, saying we really do need the
photograph, and of course we'll pay your fee Mr Newman..."

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