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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Murillo's
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:00:58 -0600
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Sounds like a great fit Tina.
You have confidence in her abilities to achieve your goals.

Best kick the rest of the "chefs" out of the kitchen
before they spoil the soup.

;~)

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:42 PM, George Lottermoser  
> <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote:
>
>> What is the "purpose" of the "edit?"
>>
>
> A book, eventually.
>
>>
>> Like any other work;
>> experience matters.
>> I have no doubt that Maggie Steber
>> has a very experienced eye for photo editing.
>> Yet, one may ask, editing for what purpose?
>> Market segment? Publications? Fine Art books? Other?
>>
>
> She was the first woman editor for Associated Press and Pulitzer Prize
> winning editor of the Miami Herald. Maggie has been awarded the  
> Ernst Haas
> grant, the Alicia Patterson Foundation grant and the Knight Foundation
> grant, as well as a World Press Photo first prize and Leica Medal of
> Excellence, and she was a two-time finalist for the Eugene Smith  
> Grant.. Her
> book on Haiti, published by Aperture, won Photo Book of the Year.   
> She works
> for National Geographic, Fortune, Smithsonian, teaches at ICP,  
> Maine, and
> Santa Fe workshops, judges NPPA Photo of the Year, World Press  
> Photo of the
> Year and many more.  So I would say she edits for all purposes.
>
> And she uses Leicas!!
>
>>
>> Will her edit express what you want to express about the subject(s)?
>> about your self? about your work? other issues?
>>
>
> During the editing process, she kept telling me to let her know if  
> there
> were photos I particularly wanted to include.  I did.  Most she  
> agreed with,
> some we argued about, some she talked me out of, some I put in the  
> B edit
> with the idea that we would review them further in the next edit.   
> I think
> she was very careful to include what I wanted to express.
>
> I still think that I would include far too many photos because I  
> know the
> story behind the people.  I find it hard to judge my photos on  
> their merits
> and not on what I remember about the situation.
>
> I need an editor.  I think it's wonderful that some people are  
> confident
> enough to judge their own work, but that's not me!
>
> Thanks -
>
> Tina
>
>>
>> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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