----- Original Message ----- From: "Miserere" Subject: Re: Toughts... Pentax and Professional Photography
> 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. > It looks like she's had to sell the copyrights to just about her entire body of work to pay of debts, she may end up at Target yet. Do they have portrait studios? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/4805404/Annie-Leibovitz-pawns-copyright-to-lifes-work-to-pay-debts.html William Robb -- 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.
