Empowering Photographers To Embrace An Uncertain Future

[mdarnton]

I think here writing style comes from hanging around galleries too much. It's that art school talk stuff--too many fancy works to express simple concepts. I wish photographers would stick to taking pictures. . .

 

[Bike Tourist]

" . . . we’re trying to build a greater dialogue, create conversations that draw on new ways photography — documentary in particular — is being expanded from the notion of just the authors to include participants in collaborative ways, but within frameworks based on the authors’ vision."

So, here we have documentary photography and photojournalism with the added kick of a photographer directing the action. It's too much trouble to find the story, just fake it.

 

[Bob Michaels]

I think here writing style comes from hanging around galleries too much. It's that art school talk stuff--too many fancy works to express simple concepts. I wish photographers would stick to taking pictures. . .

Actually her degrees are in anthropology and visual education. She has next to no gallery representation as her work is close to unmarketable. Hopefully, no one thinks she is doing this for the money.

 

[Bike Tourist]

Actually her degrees are in anthropology and visual education. She has next to no gallery representation as her work is close to unmarketable. Hopefully, no one thinks she is doing this for the money.

If her work was unmarketable she probably wouldn't be A Magnum photographer. Unless she has two streams — PJ and personal work.

 

[kbg32]

Roger, I was speaking of photographers in the field, on a reportage assignment. Not a multimedia presentation as would be in a theater or on the web, etc..

 

[Bob Michaels]

If her work was unmarketable she probably wouldn't be A Magnum photographer. Unless she has two streams — PJ and personal work.

Magnum's objectives are not sales and profit. It is merely a member owned collective agency. I believe many members who do documentary work are happy just to bring in enough so they can keep shooting. I would guess that Meiselas work is probably financed by social grants.

edit: I spoke with the director of Magnum's AIDS project and exhibit. She said it was very expensive to do, consumed a lot of their members time, and had almost no potential for generating any income but it was something the members just felt that they should do.

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

but it was something the members just felt that they should do.

That is the best reason for doing anything in the arts.