Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/28

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Subject: [Leica] OT How many here are retired? How many are happier after retirement than when you were working?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue Nov 28 15:30:16 2006

On 11/28/06 6:11 PM, "Michiel Fokkema" <michiel.fokkema@wanadoo.nl> typed:

> Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> Thing is photographers don't retire. Think of the greats; they kept 
>> shooting
>> till they dropped dead at their tripods.
> 
> Except HCB.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michiel Fokkema
> 
> 
HCB didn't retire he switched jobs.
Became a sketch artist. Sold photography out. Dissed it. It bored him.

And in his financial position he never did photography for the money in the
first place his rent was already paid from money in the family. So he was a
"gentleman photographer". Which made him less of a professional in a sense.
Which in Steiglitz's eyes and others was a good sense. You can afford to say
no.

Photography is one of the few activities where vocation is a step down from
avocation in many eyes. You become a sell out. Prostitute like.

We work out our algorithms now for our new personal printer driver with no
pressure from General Motors. Or Rex Harrison.


Mark Rabiner
New York, NY
40?47'59.79"N   
73?57'32.37"W

http://rabinergroup.com/




In reply to: Message from michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema) ([Leica] OT How many here are retired? How many are happier after retirement than when you were working?)