Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Before anyone has a heart attack about some of the stats Eric has offered about Nat Geo photo assignments, I believe it has been a very very long time since photographers had 6-9 months to shoot NG stories and 2-3 years delay before publication. Until the late-ish '90s, an assignment could run about 3-4 months and it could take about a year to get into print -- the latter not an outrageous delay, the former clearly a bit of an indulgence. Now assignments may run a month or so -- still not too too stingy. The bigger numbers are from way back when, in the days when being an NG shooter was something equivalent in status to being a Mercury or Gemini astronaut at NASA. The world has changed a great deal since then -- not kinder and gentler, but quicker and dirtier. Lots of quality things have slipped in similar ways and most people just don't seem to care. We consume visual images in all kinds of ways, and Nat Geo is no longer our main window on the world. Emanuel Lowi Montreal - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html