Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/21

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Subject: [Leica] Stock Photography
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:11:38 -0400
References: <4ADF0E4A.2010400@comporium.net> <5464C8B2604245D7B2C28B330C67185E@syneticfeba505> <4ADF4769.9090202@comcast.net> <6.2.5.6.2.20091021150415.02c252e8@med.cornell.edu>

Chris Saganich wrote:
> Advertising IS maleficence in action.  Editorial is not so much better 
> in my book, just promoting the rational.  It's easy to rationalize 
> "making a living" doing just about anything.  Too bad that seems to be 
> where the argument ends, that making a living justifies ignoring the 
> ethical comportment of the industries we work in.  I can only wish I 
> could choose which images could be stripped naked, exploited, and 
> discarded and which ones could not.    The very idea of purposely 
> making an image for that destiny turns my stomach.  Like a rack of 
> ribs to a Buddhist.
I really have no idea what you are talking about.  My photos have been 
used to raise over $10 million for hunger relief agencies in the USA and 
internationally.  That's a bad thing??

Tina
www.tinamanley.com



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