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Subject: [Leica] Digital Manipulation (WAS Greenberg & Arbus. WAS "fine art photography"
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Fri Jul 7 12:19:00 2006
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Though on the whole photographers have cozied to image manipulation 
via technology, this avenue has the potential to create a less benign
economic outcome for photographers.  A June Economist 
article tangentially referred to using offshore labor and technology
to avoid paying the photographer for "kicking his heels"

    In its newly built office block in Chennai, staff are squeezed into
    every available corner and computer terminals are used for an average
    of 2.2 shifts a day.  In one room, software is being used to change the
    colours of the clothes worn by models in the glossy catalogues of
    Americans retailers--much cheaper than paying the model to change
    while the photographer kicks his heels.
                The Economist 6/3/2006 "A Survey of Business in India" p. 6

-rei


On Jul07 14:33, Kenneth Frazier wrote:

> Each of the magazines features something like "photo of the month"  
> and in all of the issues the photos are "fine art," I think.  90% are  
> digital, manipulated heavily, frequently very abstract or  
> impressionistic, some occasionally striking, most "over the couch"  
> stuff, or "corporate wall" stuff, IMHO.

-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey


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