Comments on: 2007…Inauspicious Beginnings http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/01/05/2007inauspicious-beginnings/ Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua writes on the photo business and marketing Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:21:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ivan P Simeon (mysimeon) http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/01/05/2007inauspicious-beginnings/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Ivan P Simeon (mysimeon) Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:05:23 +0000 http://www.burnsautoparts.com/blog/2007/01/05/2007inauspicious-beginnings/#comment-421 Strange to read about photo-journalism dying. In France they said : Le Roi est mort, vive le roi (the king is dead, long life to the king), when their king died and a new one was presented. Probably photo-journalism is dying, but, like a phoenix, it will come back, better and more powerful than ever. How and when, we don't know. But it will come back. Same for other photo specialities. Think about photo-stories (magazines with a story told by pictures with text added on them). 10 years ago, you could still buy them. Now they totally disappeared. A few weeks ago, I read somewhere that the market seems again to be ready for this kind of publication. There seems to be demand. There are already softwares you can buy to build photo-stories with your family photos. Soon you will find photo-stories with celebrities. Think about a photographer paid to live with a celebrity, take pictures of her, editing them with her and building up a story with text, out of the whole stuff. Perhaps, people such as Paris Hilton will begin. Or will it be Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt with their kids. Photo-stories about the life and adventures of celebrities could sell as high as tabloids. Photo-stories are dead, long life to photo-stories ! Strange to read about photo-journalism dying. In France they said : Le Roi est mort, vive le roi (the king is dead, long life to the king), when their king died and a new one was presented. Probably photo-journalism is dying, but, like a phoenix, it will come back, better and more powerful than ever. How and when, we don’t know. But it will come back.

Same for other photo specialities. Think about photo-stories (magazines with a story told by pictures with text added on them). 10 years ago, you could still buy them. Now they totally disappeared. A few weeks ago, I read somewhere that the market seems again to be ready for this kind of publication. There seems to be demand. There are already softwares you can buy to build photo-stories with your family photos. Soon you will find photo-stories with celebrities.

Think about a photographer paid to live with a celebrity, take pictures of her, editing them with her and building up a story with text, out of the whole stuff. Perhaps, people such as Paris Hilton will begin. Or will it be Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt with their kids. Photo-stories about the life and adventures of celebrities could sell as high as tabloids. Photo-stories are dead, long life to photo-stories !

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