Leonard Freed, South Carolina, 1963. Courtesy Magnum Photos.
Well, now, that slideshow was too short. I love Leonard Freed, who I got to meet at the end of his life.
In his article on the Lens Blog about Magnum requesting help tagging its photos, James Estrin quotes Todd Carter, the co-founder and chief executive of Tagasauris: "People who would balk at doing this for giants like Getty or Corbis would be happy to help this particular collective of photographers and preserve part of photography’s cultural heritage."
No opinion about that, but it seems like an interesting and probably worthy project, in a Wikipedia kind of way.
Mike
(Thanks to John Krill)
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But some of those captions (following the link), they don't tell me what the photo is about!! And some of them are the same for different photos!! WTF. Not right - right?
Or not right? Or maybe I didn't get that long discussion about titles/captions/ - reading something about the photo in front of you.
Just my thoughts on this.
Posted by: Ray Hudson | Tuesday, 26 July 2011 at 11:37 AM
From you foto it looks like you could remove the lip. Is a scanner lens prefocused on the top of the glass ? or could you put a slightly larger piece of glass over the lip.
Posted by: David Zivic | Tuesday, 26 July 2011 at 11:40 AM
It certainly is a valuable initiative. 200,000 photos seems a lot, but not for ~5000 taggers. Volunteer!
Posted by: Jacek Sztandera | Tuesday, 26 July 2011 at 01:07 PM
Well, I do not think I'm participating, and that is for a reason...
Doing something gratis for a free (as in freedom, a-la wikipedia) project is one thing, doing it for a commercial body it another. It's essentially, freely (as in beer) helping someone else make more money...
I'm not against Magnum making more money, but commercial work should be payed and gratis work compensated, I would understand it they compensated by publishing the archive with a Creative Commons or Public Domain license, but as far as I know that's not happening any time soon.
Posted by: Account Deleted | Tuesday, 26 July 2011 at 04:37 PM