Muses,
The following post from Stephen Perloff to the history of photography
list asks for comments. My guess is that some of y'all might wish to
offer some. Please cc: to the photo list. Best. david
David Haynes [log in to unmask] San Antonio
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From: Stephen Perloff <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:35:06 -0500
Subject: [PhotoHistory] Comments?
Message-ID: <a05100306b83159d43f68@[151.201.152.18]>
I just got the following from a stock photo e-mail newsletter. Any
comments from the archivists out there?
DON'T MAKE THIS MISTAKE. The Maryland Historical Society recently
announced the acquisition of the Leo Beachy Collection of
Photographs. That's a mistake for Mr. Beachy and his heirs. [Beachy
was a local Maryland photographer (1874-1927).] The collection
includes 2,000 postcard prints, and 200 glass-plate negatives.
Although this would have been a feather in Beachy's hat in earlier
days, times have changed. And you can profit by them. No longer
should you "donate" or sell your collection to a school, college,
university, museum, or collector. Instead, set up a Trust Fund that
will eventually digitize your photos and perpetuate sales of your
photos through the Internet. This is likely to happen 75 years from
now, when your so-called "outdated" images will then become of
historical significance. The Trust can always lend the photos for an
exhibit, lease them, or sell them, so that your heirs will benefit
from your creativity. Your photos are too valuable an asset to sell
as a collection to a middleman, or donate to a non-profit
organization that might very well store them the way they store most
of their collections - in their cellar.
--
Stephen Perloff, Editor
The Photo Review / The Photograph Collector
140 East Richardson Avenue, Suite 301
Langhorne, PA 19047
Phone: 215/891-0214
Fax: 215/891-9358
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Website: http://www.photoreview.org
Any opinion expressed above is not that of my employer. Nor is it
even my own opinion. Any resemblance to an opinion held by any
person, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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