Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - National Geographic film usage
From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:29:24 -0400
References: <MNELJONCHOKNFLMBFJCCOEJGCBAA.kitmc@acmefoto.com>

- --On Wednesday, April 23, 2003 01:07:20 PM -0600 Kit McChesney | acmefoto 
<kitmc@acmefoto.com> wrote:

> The old gray goose just ain't what she used to be.
>
> I'd say that the magazine has become so mass-market (the last time I
> checked, which was about ten years ago, they were charging about $175,000
> for a four-color full page ad) that the content has definitely suffered.
> Seems a bit thin. It's fast-produced, mass-produced. Used to be you could
> not buy the NG on newsstands. It was just not possible. Now they're in
> Safeway and everywhere else. It's a nice magazine, but it's not the same
> publication it used to be, not a journal of the National Geographic
> Society, which meant something quite different from what it means now.
>
> There is still good work in it, but it just doesn't have the same feel it
> once had, at least not when I was a youngin' lusting to be the "other"
> woman in its ranks. Every month I would grab the new issue as soon as it
> arrived, and look in the credits to see if the lone female--whose name I
> can't remember anymore--had been joined by any other. I can't remember
> if, in my days of rabid NG fandom, if there was ever more than one woman
> on staff. Now I see they've come out with a book called "Women
> Photographers of National Geographic." I must have been doing something
> else while they added enough women to qualify for a coffee-table book
> featuring female shooters.
>
> Kit

I think Karen Kasmauski was the first one, but there were definitely others 
later.

Rolfe

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Rolfe Tessem
Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.
rolfe@ldp.com
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