On Oct 3, 2005, at 23:14, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
Don't some museums sell slide images of their pieces?
As far as Iknow, the Met doesn't sell slides - you have to make your own - but they'll allow you to make them, if "you play nice". Depending on how the image will be used and who buys it, the charge varies - I paid (I think) ca $10 per photo (not slide) of the photos provided by the museum. These were quite large and very good (yet not "good enough <g>) pics, and I had to swear they were for my personal use and I wasn't going to broadcast them to all and sundry.
Any photo (nevermind slide) taken by the Met and allowed to be published tends to carry a price-hump on it high enough to make Shylock cross himself in awe.
Devon's estimation is $300 for the 300 slides used in her lecture (and I don't know if it's something that "burps" every time she gives the lecture, or a one time payment, but suspect it's the first option) - a lot of the images there were ones that she and her DH took, not the ones the Met provided. And, of course, she had to pay twice even for the Met-provided ones; once for the image and once for translating it into a slide.
It would be lovely - in some ways - if all vounteers could afford to hock their entire lives in the service of the public. It would be even nicer if the public - sometimes - stopped long enough in counting their "rights" (to free access to everything) and spare a thought for those who labour to provide the pleasure, without ever making a cent for themselves and rarely coming out even.
Yours, digging ever deeper into depression, as the summer winds down, the days grow shorter and the country's "head team" continues to be as disgusting and treacherous as ever the commie system had been in my teens...
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