[New-Poetry] CD Wright's body count

[TheOldMole]

You'd have to put me down as an exploiter too.

http://www.amazon.com/Struggle-lose-struggle-win-Workers/dp/0590073559/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214962638&sr=8-1

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> Sam, documentary photographers don't often pay people to shoot their 
> images. A simple release form is enough
> to clear publication. Nothing about the photographs (or poetry) 
> strikes me as exploitive. Nothing I heard in Wright's
> presentation led me to think, as artistic collaborators, 
> they were doing anything more than throwing light (in both 
> photographic and
> poetic sense) on a obscure, unseen part of the vast US penal system.
>
> I don't know the Judy Davis/Woody Allen reference, I'm afraid, but a 
> well-produced, large format book of photographs is an 'art book'.
> They're costly, true. But the term 'coffee table book' seems 
> pointed perjorative in a Loganesque way.
> Finnegan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rsgwynn1 at cs.com
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> Sent: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:01 am
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] CD Wright's body count
>
> http://www.amazon.com/One-Big-Self-Prisoners-Louisiana/dp/1931885257/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214884493&sr=1-1 
> <http://www.amazon.com/One-Big-Self-Prisoners-Louisiana/dp/1931885257/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214884493&sr=1-1>
>
> James, please read what I wrote.  This is the coffee-table book I was 
> talking about (and I stand by what I said about its being suitable for 
> the fictional Judy Davis's coffee table).  Did the persons depicted in 
> these photographs and poems receive any compensation (to which they 
> were surely entitled)?  I read somewhere that they /did /receive 
> snapshot-size versions of their photos.  I call this exploitative. 
>
> Sam
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