Doesn't look like much has changed since the 40's

Photography - 1946 Vocational Guidance Film

Hobby photogrpahers selling images to magazines for income and a crowded industry

Quote from: leaf on September 26, 2012, 12:05
Doesn't look like much has changed since the 40's

exactly. the technology has changed dramatically and other things are surprisingly almost the same.

Classic!! thanks for posting

oh, this was awesome, thanks for posting this, all the best to you

Yeah, used to be an annual photomarket magazine. I don't know if its still published. It lists magazines and what they wanted to buy. It's probably a website now. But the old newsreel movie is a classic!

Yes, amazing how little has actually changed. Including statements like "...a business you can start as a hobby" or "...there are far more photographers than opportunities"....

which is why I always tell my students to persue their interests.
"You can do well in any topic when you want to".
Its all about what you want to.

Not the '40s, but I looked at stock in the late 70s early 80s with my old AE-1 Program. You had to shoot slide, print multiple copies, label them with what little info could be written on the edges, mount them in plastic sleeves and fed-ex them around the country. That's after shooting and processing.

Maybe not much has changed, but what gets done in a few minutes now took many hours back then, plus the expense of producing stock submissions.