As a businesswoman you of necessity and perhaps inclination have a narrow view of photography . For you it's a product. Your goal is to sell the product for the highest price you can get, period.
For me photography is a means of self _expression_, of creativity, of all sorts of things that are not attached to money. I used to shoot pictures as part of my job as associate editor of Fortune 100 external corporate magazines. I had to please the people who paid my salary. Now I please only myself.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Emily L. Ferguson <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If raising children is so valuable why don't the parents who stay home and don't work in order to raise them receive the benefits of working?
Y'know, it's really great that so many people here affirm the emotional value of their imagery and other creative work. And it might be just wonderful if they could get insurance against the loss of that work on the basis of its emotional value to them.
But by every measure used in our culture, the only value that counts is money.
If you give your work away you peg its value at the price you gave it away for. If you refuse to acknowledge that equation, I hope you never need a car, a roof over your head, health care, clothing, heat, a computer, food, education - need I go on?
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Emily L. Ferguson
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