Re: Images Needed! Be published!

[Paul Aparycki <parl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Joel,
>I agree there should be compensation for the Photographer.
>Through all the years I have been  Pro Photographer, I have always believed
>that if you give your work away, you have established it's value.
>Sam
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joel Seaman <jseaman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 10:41 AM
>Subject: Re: Images Needed! Be published!
>
>
>I have a thought/suggestion about the request for free images.  No fee
>is offered, and therefore the publisher is suggesting that free exposure
>alone is of value.  The publisher should include an appendix  in which
>each photographer is alotted a small paragraph for bio, contact info,
>type of work offered, etc.  This request would then offer a more
>reasonable value in exchange for the free photos.
>
>Joel Seaman

To carry the thought further, and lets' be fair about this, if the photog
should donate his work, I think it only fair that the editor should work
for free(!) oooh! a four letter word!, and why not the publisher? give away
the book for free? (there's that damn four letter word again), after all it
is good exposure, no?, why not the printer? the bookstore? the binder? and
everybody else? GET REAL ASSHOLE . . . it costs any REAL photographer TIME
and MONEY to produce a photograph. Those of us who ARE professional
photographers, do this for a living . . . it is a business (and a passion),
but neither I, nor anyone else, can keep up quality work if we give it away
for free in desperation just to get published.

pissed off by amateurs,

yours

Paul Aparycki