{"id":1866,"date":"2011-10-28T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2018-01-21T02:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T06:48:26","slug":"where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2011\/10\/28\/where-credit-is-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Credit is Due"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s nice to be acknowledged for something you’ve worked on, and there’s nothing wrong with not being acknowledged either. Having something you’ve done be attributed to someone or something else however inevitable or justified\u00e2\u20ac\u201d on the other hand, can be something of a downer indeed.<\/p>\n

Some media frequently carry around a reputation for being supremely effortless hackjobs. (Percussion, for instance, is one such: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So you just bang around on drums and stuff? That’s awesome, man, I should’ve done that, it would’ve been so much easier”). People outside any given field don’t necessarily appreciate that there is a finesse to everything, not just what they themselves do. That’s how there are specialists, experts, professionals. Art is, after all, an art.<\/p>\n

Another fallacy assumes that better work is the direct result of more expensive equipment. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The better the oddslot<\/a> camera, the better the picture!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Friends, on occasion, will be all too glad to ooh and ahh over something I’ve shot. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But you have one of those big black cameras, don’t you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they add, glancing at the incriminating SLR in my had, as if that explained everything. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That’s a really good picture,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I’ve overheard. Then, as an aside, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he’s got a nice camera.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But things don’t work that way, of course. Out of every hundred clicks of the shutter button and repeated trial and error might a small handful of images satisfactory enough to be post-processed and touched up be picked out. Or, as an oft-quoted anecdote from Sam Haskins puts it:<\/p>\n

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A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love your pictures\u00e2\u20ac\u201d they’re wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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TChen realizes she is probably preaching to the choir and apologizes for this overly short and rant-y diatribe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s nice to be acknowledged for something you’ve worked on, and there’s nothing wrong with not being acknowledged either. Having something you’ve done be attributed to someone or something else however inevitable or justified\u00e2\u20ac\u201d on the other hand, can be something of a downer indeed. Some media frequently carry around a reputation for being supremely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8904,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/8904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}