[Leica] A good while ago

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (s.dimitrov@charter.net)]

One of my hobbies is collecting news photos from old defunct wire services.
I collect them to remind myself that there never was a golden age. 
Technical mediocrity was normative. 
Poor quality was the standard. 
Content, more often than not, was poorly arranged and expressed.
Otherwise, people with cameras, were just making a living.

Slobodan Dimitrov

---- Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 
> Photographers rarely were considered high priority people in relation to 
> the
> journalists on a newspaper. Sure there was usually the "king shooter" of 
> the
> paper or agency. But generally the regular guys and gals were near second
> class folks. Occasionally recognized for talent if a photograph won a prize
> and the paper built that up on behalf of the paper.
> 
> 
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