2009/4/27 William Robb <[email protected]>: > > > That would be a very lucky person, like the very rare person who has managed > to build enough of a cult of personality that they can pretty much do > whatever they like, and people will buy from them becuase of who they are, > not what they are doing. > > William Robb
[cough]Annie Leibovitz[cough] Disclaimer: I liked Annie's work back when I was a young lad in the late 80's and had NO idea what photography was, just that one day I would like to be a photographer (by which I just mean "make pictures", not necessarily be a pro). At some point, Annie started living off her fame and stopped doing stuff only SHE could do. When I see her work on Vanity Fair right now, or the myriad ad campaigns she's shot for, I see nothing that some other photographer couldn't have accomplished. I feel like she was paid just so the client could say "Annie shot it for us". Plus, there is so much Photoshop manipulation (not that there's anything wrong with that in an ad campaign) that whatever residual of Annie's magic may have remained in the frames was smudge tool'd out. But hey, if somebody wants to pay me $1 million to hang around superstars and press the shutter release when the Art director tells me to, I'll do it. Of course, Annie could have principles and say 'no'. She could also live on the street and work weekends at Target. I think she did what she had to do, which is what all of us would have done in her place. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://enticingthelight.wordpress.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
