Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi George, Alastair & Tina, Strange times indeed. In my understanding, if people are in a public place then one can photograph them and present the work as documentary street photography. If the images are not derogatory, and, in my book, one does not profit from them financially, then all is OK. Many have profitted from portraits made in the third world. I am thinking of $10,000 once offered for one of Salgado's prints of some poor soul in India, who I am sure never saw a cent of that. Then again, shouldn't the photographer be able to make a living from his work...As for the system, it is simply too big, too complex with subterfuge and run by such powerful forces, that wee folks like us either go along for the ride, or watch it from the side lines. I have long given up the idea of somehow effecting change to the system. I mean who has the time for that? I remember decades ago when the lunacy of the Vietnam conflict was made apparent and we all said never again, and demanded traqnsparency from our government. Remember Watergate? Then now decades later the whole thing repeats itself. Change the system...are you kidding? Eric Boehm On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com> wrote: > We, who are old enough to have experienced the freedoms, must enlighten the > young who will not even know there were better times. Not to be depressed > rather to be excited to reclaim our country, world, freedom to work and > express ourselves. > > Fond regards, > George > > george@imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > On Jul 12, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > >> Yes, it's depressing to me. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Eric W.A. Boehm, PhD Assistant Professor, Microbiology Department of Biological Sciences Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave. Union, NJ 07083 908-737-3654 eboehm@kean.edu Research Website: http://www.eboehm.com/ Photography Website: http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/