From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 06/21/01-07:09:01 PM Z
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 FDanB@aol.com wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Mathias said in his message...
>
> >There is a world of difference between a Writer and a writer
> >of information. It cannot be too soon enough that information is
> >available for the asking.
> >If he wants to make a buck on his book,
> >fine. I just hope he can keep the focus of his efforts to his
> >photography.
>
> Now how do I properly respond to comments that subtlety suggest that one
> is less than generous if they actually charge for their
> effort/knowledge/talent etc?
Dan, don't even attempt to respond to such and infantile notion. Of course
when the good tax payers set up a foundation to support all those whose
information they want free, the intellectual sweat of whose brow they
think they should get for a mouse click.... or when the National Endowment
for the Humanities grants them all a yearly stipend -- let's say a lot of
bookstores will go out of business. Including Amazon.com.
Of course they'll also have to provide funds for printing, binding and
shipping, which is not cheap. Unless we're doing away with print
entirely???? Not to worry, there will still be a market for porn. Nobody
expects that to be given away free.
Judy
I guess I'll somewhat clumsily declare that
> my first devotion is to photography and my second to art. For two years
> my artistic efforts have been muted as I've assumed the role of
> facilitator for others as they struggle to enter the most exciting period
> we've ever witnessed in the history of photography. That's OK. I enjoy
> teaching and get lots of emotional reward from sharing information, even
> when I'm not doing it for free. As for charging for the book...yep, the
> income helps pay for the year of my life I surrendered while writing a
> 350 page resource, most of which demanded original technical research.
>
> (Fair warning, Jeff: we're working on instructional videos/CDROMs that,
> though our primary goal is to provide valuable information ((with
> emphasis on VALUABLE)), will not be free for the asking.) >;^D
>
> As for "focusing efforts on...photography," next year I'm going to be
> saying "no" much more often when it comes to teaching opportunities
> around the country and abroad, concentrating more on my creative
> photography. In fact, I just shipped a show two weeks ago that included
> my first color work in nearly a quarter century. Many of the prints (all
> from images made in the past several months) were 20 X 30 inch color
> pigment prints (life of 200+ years before any noticeable fading) that I
> made right in the studio on fine cotton watercolor papers. I could never
> get excited about color when it was so fugitive and lacked the control
> that I demand in my work. Digital imaging has changed all the rules in
> color printing just as it has for our black and white work and negative
> enlarging.
>
> Dan Burkholder
>
> Dan Burkholder
> P.O. Box 111877
> Carrollton, TX 75011-1877
> USA
> 972-242-9819
> fax 972-242-9651
> danphoto@aol.com
> www.danburkholder.com
>
> Author of the book nobody should be without:
> "Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing."
>
>
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