[p2p-research] de-professionalization of photography

[Michel Bauwens]

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   - For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path -
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 Topic: For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path -
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   "Paul D. Fernhout" <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> Mar 30 03:57PM
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   When will this happen to product design?
   "For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path - NYTimes.com"
   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/media/30photogs.html
   """
   Mr. Eich and Ms. Pruitt illustrate the huge shake-up in photography
   during
   the last decade. Amateurs, happy to accept small checks for snapshots of
   children and sunsets, have increasing opportunities to make money on
   photos
   but are underpricing professional photographers and leaving them with
   limited career options. Professionals are also being hurt because
   magazines
   and newspapers are cutting pages or shutting altogether.
   “There are very few professional photographers who, right now, are not
   hurting,” said Holly Stuart Hughes, editor of the magazine Photo District
   News.
   ...
   That meant a flood of pretty decent photographs, and that changed the
   stock-photography industry. In the last few years, stock agencies have
   created or acquired so-called microstock divisions. They charge $1 to
   $100,
   in most cases, for publishers or others to rerun a photo, often supplied
   by
   an amateur. And Getty made a deal with Flickr in 2008, permitting Getty’s

   photo editors to comb through customers’ images and strike license
   agreements with the amateur photographers.
   “The quality of licensed imagery is virtually indistinguishable now from
   the quality of images they might commission,” Mr. Klein said. Yet “the
   price
   point that the client, or customer, is charged is a fraction of the price

   point which they would pay for a professional image.”
   ...
   In 2005, Getty Images licensed 1.4 million preshot commercial photos.
   Last
   year, it licensed 22 million — and “all of the growth was through our
   user-generated business,” Mr. Klein said.
   That is because amateurs are largely happy to be paid anything for their
   photos. “People that don’t have to make a living from photography and do
   it
   as a hobby don’t feel the need to charge a reasonable rate,” Mr. Eich
   said.
   """

   --Paul Fernhout
   http://www.pdfernhout.net/
   ====
   The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of

   abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity.



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