> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > John Sessoms > > From: "Bob W" > > > With the democratisation of publishing, the difficulty that writers > > and photographers will have is to find a way of getting the right > > exposure to the right people. People are not going to look at a great > > many places in search of good work, so the outlets will coalesce > > around a few sites for each audience - there will be a huge > > proliferation of overlapping audiences > > - and somebody will curate each site. > > The real question is what's going to happen to the work of good > writers, good photographers & good artists when the answer to the > question "Can I make a living doing this?" becomes universally NO. >
Ask Balzac, and all the other writers and artists who spent time in debtor's prisons. For the vast majority of artists it has always been a spare time activity, done for love, not money. > Not even talking about getting rich; just about earning enough so you > can convince the landlord that *someday* he might eventually collect at > least part of the back rent. > Balzac only used to rent places which had a back door, so that when his creditors found out his new address, and came looking for him, he had a way to escape. People like Picasso never had any money for years. That's where the legends of signing napkins to pay for meals came from, and why cafes in Paris still have originals on the walls by some of the great artists. People find patrons - Matisse had Shchukhin to support him. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
