Watch here the Magnum In Motion essay “Capitolio” by Christoph Anderson.
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Earning money as a photographer:
Thomas Höpker talks here (minute 77ff) about how to earn money as a photographer nowadways. (Thomas Dworzak talks in his lecture about that topic, too)
He says that there are simply fewer and fewer newspapers who pay money for series. This means photographers have to find new income streams.
They should use the Internet and its advantages to earn money. For example, instead of only 700.000 sold copies of the STERN magazine, there are up to 20 million users watching a clip at the Internet. If you manage to get paid per click a very small amount, voila!
Nowadays many photographers take microphones or even video cams with them. Then filmlets are cut and sold. Magnum for example sells magnuminmotion files and pictures to the website slatemagazine (among others) and are propably paid via clicks they get on advertisment.
Do you like these essays? What do you think?
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I really dont understand why they still use watermarks on their tiny pics, while these essays are watermark free. -
imagine this whole essay without blinking and music and texture, each frame side by side…what is left?
nothing….
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I find his images of Capitolio very powerful, and probably(*) very representative of the place, his black and white is gritty and harsh, he doesn’t have the “perfect tonal range” neither pastel colors with suspended atmosphere. In an essay there will always be a few weaker photos (from an artistic point of view), that are still needed to contribute to the overall feeling of the place. The picture with the kid standing on the wall while the city is seen in a distance is, to me, much more than “nothing”.
There is another issue, this one on Bolivian elections (2005 if I don’t go wrong) here. It looks that some of the photos pop up again in Capitolio (they were taken in Venezuela, but some time earlier).
(*)I’ve never been in Caracas, but I’ve been in Bolivia (also in El Alto) and think that Mr. Anderson made a wonderful job in portraying those places. Probably other people might produce a work that is more “artistically valid”, but that’s not the point!
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I think it´s a good essay, not the best I´ve seen but good. For me it´s like with reading, the most important is not the story, it´s how it´s told, a good wrighter with “good language” can get by without a good story, with a “bad language” you can´t get by with a good story. Some pictures in this essay I find very very good others mediocre, but they work well together, I like the language they form. I don´t care so much for the story. I don´t like the zooming and panings on the pictures however.
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What about earning money.
Does a photographer nowadways have to offer such multimedia essays?
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Does a photographer nowadways have to offer such multimedia essays?
yes
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“Does a photographer nowadways have to offer such multimedia essays?”
I have no knowledge of the market to answer such a question. If the pros say that they have to in order to make a living, I guess that my opinion is of no interest!
As an user: I often catch myself surfing “too fast” on photographs, a multimedia slideshow sets for me a timeframe for each shot.
The amount of detail available when looking at a picture on the internet isn’t enough to catch my attention for a long time, compared to a book e.g., so music and commentary might prove a good way to hold the viewer’s attention for some time.
In a “normal world” the photographers provide what the editors want and the editors publish what the users like. I guess that this makes the money go around…
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http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2009/10/a_conversation_with_christopher_anderson.html#more
“”"”After publishing my review of Christopher Anderson’s Capitolio, I ended up exchanging emails with him about the work and its purpose and reception. Things got so interesting that I thought this would be a great opportunity to take things public and to have a conversation with him on this blog. Thankfully, Chris agreed. Note that larger versions of all images (all of them, of course, are copyright Christopher Anderson) can be seen by clicking on them. The b/w images are from the book, and they are presented just like in the book (see the conversation for details).
Jörg Colberg: Your new book, Capitolio, deals with Caracas, the capitol of Venezuela. Venezuela of course is ruled by Hugo Chavez, who, depending on what view you subscribe to, is either hailed as the most important saviour of impoverished Latin American masses (just short of Jesus) or as one of the worst dictators in the whole world (just short of Hitler). So you got yourself injected into a very toxic situation – why did you go for that? Why Caracas?
Christopher Anderson: When I started the work there, I wasn’t looking to make a political statement about Chavez. I still don’t believe I am making a statement about the internal politics of Venezuela at all. I did set out to to make a portrait about a time and a place that I, through a series of circumstances, got caught up in. If there were statements to be made, they were universal themes about a part of the world where crushing poverty, fabulous wealth, violence, sensuality, fear, anger, propaganda, etc. are part of the cycle of life. Capitolio is a metaphor and could be any one of many different Latin American cities at any one of many different time periods throughout history. Of course when making a portrait of this place, the politics could not be avoided and Chavez was inevitably going to play a role in the book. But my intention is not to make judgements against or for him. He is just one among many parts of the landscape. Chavez, in this book, is not the illness or the cure, he is merely a symptom. He is at the end of the book to suggest that, if anything, all the ills we see before provide a context for the rise of a figure like him, and that his presence must be understood against a backdrop of what this place is like… not that Chavez creates all of these bad things.”"”"
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“”Caracas, the capitol of Venezuela. Venezuela of course is ruled by Hugo Chavez, who, depending on what view you subscribe to, is either hailed as the most important saviour of impoverished Latin American masses (just short of Jesus) or as one of the worst dictators in the whole world (just short of Hitler).”"
Chaves, Caracas …. ? sort of Hitler…. uhhh ??
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venezuala has oil. chavez doesn’t want to do business with the usa. chavez is as bad as hitler. sound familiar?
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;))
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