Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/22

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Subject: [Leica] Stock Photography
From: chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:20:53 -0400
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20091021150415.02c252e8@med.cornell.edu> <C704FC02.56EC4%mark@rabinergroup.com>

So you would agree then that Warhol advanced the world of art rather 
then destroyed it?




At 05:57 PM 10/21/2009, you 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'm a vegetarian photographer of  eastern spiritual bent who has no idea
>what " stripped  naked, exploited, and discarded "  means as I close my
>third eye and try to imagine a picture this has happened to taken by me or
>anyone else.
>Advertizing photography often is quite good half the time better than what's
>on the chincy gallery's walls in Chelsea. And often IS what's on those
>walls. Or the MET or MOMA.
>Irving Penn just died last week what was he doing stuff for the Sistine
>chapel ceiling? He was a commercial photographer illustrating products to be
>sold on the open market.  Capitalism at its finest. Often those products
>were clothing but you name it.
>
>
>Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
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