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Originally Posted by kormoran
Hi Nick,
But we don't know if there is a truth behind the statements which were posted here.
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Then we'd be in a lot better position to judge the truth if people offered some
evidence for their claims, wouldn't we?
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Everybody has the chance to clear such reproaches or to say
something against.
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But why should anyone have to defend themselves against insults and accusations unsupported by any evidence. Is writing books a crime all of a sudden?
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I like the publishing work of Mr. Prien very much but we all read
some strange states on this board in the past. I think that's a fact
that we can find photos of sudeks archive in the JFV series ... So it's possible that some people made agreements with sudek himself. And if this is true I think that it's immoral - or let me better say - very questionable.
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I'd rather that historical material was in public archives but you have to face it that these photos are in private hands: the owners are entitled to sell them and Sudek is entitled to buy them. This being capitalism and him reputedly having more money than we do, he/she gets to buy them in an auction.
What has he actually done wrong? If he broke the law, tell the police. If he's breaking the auction rules, tell ebay. If you don't like capitalism, this forum probably isn't the best place to fight it either.
No one has offered any evidence of Jochen Prien actually doing anything wrong. If he or any other author makes an effort to obtain the best possible photos for a book, what is actually wrong with that provided they are obtained honestly? Also, huge numbers of photos feature in more than one personal collection or public archive.