if i could have a conversation with a 2nd person besides emanuel ...
it would probably be someone who i might not have never heard of but is
fastidious with her or his processing and printing who would probably
have a coronary and give me a dope slap when she or he saw my work or what i do ...
i'd like to just to get more than a healthyearful of the polar opposite of me...
I have. I assure you, you would not.
LOL maybe 8DSounds like you want to talk to me.
Why? I'm curious. I have two biographies of him. In addition to his research and inventions, he was concerned about racial and social justice and cared about the environment. He was known to be an extreme workaholic and I suspect he may have expected similar sacrifices from others, but I don't know.
Please tell me, if you wish.
Timothy O'Sullivan.As an extension to another thread...a wise gentleman suggested this thread...Good idea Bill.
So here goes: If you could, who would you most like to have a discussion on photography with?
A photographer who worked in the "French Quarter" in New Orleans, LA back in the 1930/40s. If you have been in "Preservation Hall", you have been in what was his studio/residence. He knew "Pictorial Photography" because he neglected his studio work to enter international competitions where he was quite successful (his friends, both in and out of photography bailed him out so he was able to keep his studio until (I think) he died. I had the good fortune to hear him lecture once here in Shreveport. We sent him a plane ticket which he cashed in and bought a bus ticket so he could see the countryside better, he said. Hr only had one leg at the time having lost the other to diabetes. A "French Quarter Character" but he forgot more about portraits than most photographers will ever know. I think time talking with (but not down to) him would be fascinating....His name:"Pops" Whitesell. By the way, he was totally against ever wiping a lens to clean it. Said the spider webs, dust and finger prints made more interesting pictures. .........Regards!As an extension to another thread...a wise gentleman suggested this thread...Good idea Bill.
So here goes: If you could, who would you most like to have a discussion on photography with?
Why? I'm curious. I have two biographies of him. In addition to his research and inventions, he was concerned about racial and social justice and cared about the environment. He was known to be an extreme workaholic and I suspect he may have expected similar sacrifices from others, but I don't know.
Please tell me, if you wish.
Polaroid prospered during South African apartheid ... How? SA's mandatory i.d. cards, every one of which was made by a Polaroid security camera on Polaroid film. Edwin Land surely must have enjoyed that financially, so I very much doubt his purported concerns about "social justice".
've heard several of his presentations in which he took credit for things his researchers did or that were done by others in the field. An example is Polacolor film which was actually developed (no pun intended) by Kodak engineers under contract.
Jnanian, who owns the photographs that a newspaper photographer takes depends upon legal agreements between the photographer and the newspaper. Back in the good old days, local newspapers had "first publication rights" to any pictures the photographers took on the job. Any reprints as well as the negatives belonged to the photographers. I do not know what arrangements are now.. The result of the earlier system was that. newspaper photographer spent his/her whole career working for the same company and earned money after retirement selling pictures of Elvis that they had taken when he was at the Louisiana Hayride on his way up. It worked well for both parties. They retired and that system ended, I think, when a big newspaper chain bought out our local papers.........Regards!maybe i'm wrong but when someone works undercontract for an employer isn't it the perogative of the employer to say who
developed or invented whatever they did? like a photojournalist who works for a newspaper or agency,
its the agency/newspaper who own the photographs not the photographer ...
or the people who designed/discovered/invented all sorts of things upc symbols
to the things taken for granted and millions in automobile construction...
when i was working for an environmental firm they regularly would take my name
off of things i wrote and put it in the main body and not have my name on the paper or research ...
same thing happened when i was a grad student and did "study reports" for projects and proposals
for things put on the national register &c .. the next year photographs taken from the
same vantage points i took them from, and my research and writing and others put their name on it ..
same old-same old
maybe i am wrong for thinking these things and the people who work under contract, photojournalists,
employees of large corporations, researchers, report writers and grad students should get credit
but i figure that is just the way of things ..
isn't / wasn't chromium used in many photographic products during the apartheid era ?
if so, seems like all sorts of photographic industries reeped the benefits of relations
with SA ... and big bumpers on cars too ...
what about lenses ? and developers? and KC or the backing paper for 120 film ? LOLAnyone that wants to talk about photographs and not cameras.
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