Manuel
Thanks for that information. I understand, also, that it is more
difficult to take photographs of people and publish them, owing to
the law of privacy in France.
And reading the French parts of your message makes me want to visit
France again, soon. Perhaps we will do the Canal du Midi again ...
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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On 14 May 2006, at 01:38, Manuel Viet wrote:
> Le samedi 13 Mai 2006 23:22, Chris Barker a écrit :
>> I think that it's fine to assume that people interested in
>> photography will have at least 1,000 pixels across their monitors ...
>
> As far as french photographers are concerned, I suspect that a lot
> of them are
> as much interested in photography as in their checkbook balance. At
> least,
> for the more vocal among them, who certainly view themselves as the
> next
> Cartier-Bresson. Discussions on usenet frequently revolve around
> the best
> ways to have papers pay for pictures, how to forbid websites to rip
> pictures,
> etc. It maybe that we are pushed toward this attitude by the law
> (France may
> have one of the harshest law on 'copyright' - quotes intended,
> because 'le
> droit d'auteur' is not exactly copyright).
>
> All in all, I've always found that foreigners have a more relaxed
> approach of
> photography, even the professionals or the talented amateurs who
> happen to
> really *sell* pictures, which is generaly not the case of those french
> pseudo-artists I'm talking about. In any case, I never saw the same
> concerns
> ranted about time and time again.
>
> In all fairness, I must say that those french photographers live in a
> complete dilemma, because as you may know, culturaly, money making
> is not a
> praised activity here. Or more acurately put, it is, but you'd
> better not
> confess it. That's something which could easily ruin a career (oh,
> you know,
> X makes nice illustrations, but he has no real talent : "c'est un
> habile
> faiseur" [he his a good craftsman - pejorative subtext : can't be
> art, no
> better than a nice furniture]). So they hide their aim behind smoke
> screens
> like "the artistic quality of the reproduction can only be assessed
> by the
> author", "I want the ideology / political view of the user to be
> compatible
> with mine", etc. They really are full of s...elf-confidence.
>
> Anyway. I think many of them use 800x600 because that's a size that
> can't be
> printed. Myself, I'd be glad I think if one of my picture was
> making the
> front cover of a magazine, even without my approval (well, not
> exactly *any*
> magazine, of course). In that unlikely event, there would be time
> to find a
> settlement later on, anyway.
>
> --
> Manuel Viet
>
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