You have an odd view of explotation if you think models dont know what they are doing or what they are worth. The photographer by you definition is probably more exploited then the models. I dont think Tina is exploiting anyone but that type of work has a million times greater potential to exploit then a model who is being paid to be in a shoot they chose to be part of. Pay usually based on usage.
Exploitation: . the use or manipulation of another person for one's own advantage.
Tell me how the use of ANY model is not exploitation. Personally I think that photographing people of a different culture, showing their lives and their environment, is MUCH less of an exploitive enterprise than using a model who doesn’t understand her or his true worth to sell a product. Every photographer exploits another person every time they photograph that person.
One can quibble—as I will do in a second—about degrees of exploitation, but if a photographer profits from taking pictures of others, it is exploitation.
As for myself, I find it much less offensive to see photos of different cultures to which I have not been exposed than to see exploitive photographs used only to profit the photographer and a sponsor. I learn from the former, I get nothing useful from the latter. YMMV.
Peace
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On Dec 20, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
Your hostility is the reason I seldom post photos on Photoforum. You must be a very unhappy person.
Tina
So now you’re a shrink too? I’m not hostile Tina, I am speaking my mind on the topic of exploitation. Like it or not, you are exploiting these people even though you bend over backwards to make it not appear to be so.
Art Faul
The Artist Formerly Known as Prints
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