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Thread #148211   Message #3439664
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Nov-12 - 01:04 AM
Thread Name: The Ethics of making money photographing
Subject: RE: The Ethics of making money photographing
Yeah, Dick, but as Stim implied, the last time anybody made any money taking a photo of a folk musician was about 1968 - unless, of course, you acknowledge Carla Bruni-Sarkozy calling herself a folksinger - but people don't take her photo because of her singing.

So, Dick, your question is as moot as my points were irrelevant.

A photographer who may have made some money on folk musician photographs was George Pickow, the late husband of Jean Ritchie....but I doubt anybody minded.

Another is John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers.

I think we should thank the photographers who have chronicled the world of folk music. We shouldn't bill them for their services, because I doubt they made much money after 1968.

-Joe-