After reading several messages about how "sick" it is to sell these
negs and pics on eBay, I've come to wonder why that is. If the
seller had offered these same items to a sports or racing magazine,
a newspaper or tabloid, I don't think there'd be a question about
his "sickness". Rather, I suspect many people would be commenting
about how lucky he was to get a "money" shot and how clever he was
to be able to have found a buyer.
Is this any sicker than the Zapruder film, or the documentary
footage of the Hindenberg disaster - or the thousands of frames
exposed in Viet Nam during the war, or the prize winning photo of a
baby being thrown from a burning building?
So, could someone please tell me why it's any sicker to offer this
on eBay than to Motor racing News, Sports Illustrated, or USA Today,
or why it's sicker than the above photos.
Jon Hope wrote:
> They are still there, the auction runs another 5 days. The URL is
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1138120658
>
> I can't see the problem with what he's trying to sell. There are 8 images
> of an motor sport crash where someone died. <shrug> I've seen a lot worse.
>
> To each his own. One man's poison...
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Shel Belinkoff
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There are no rules for good photographs,
there are only good photographs.
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