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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