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Portrait Partnership: Good salesmanship is so important that it might be worth your while to consider taking on just the right man as a partner, to do all the selling and bookkeeping and handling of reorders and all other business details, so that you would be free to concentrate altogether on the creative and artistic end of the portrait partnership. If you are able to find a really good businessman for a partner, you may be sure that he will contribute his full share to the success of your enterprise. Financial success in the portrait field these days is, in the final analysis, probably more a matter of merchandising than of photography.
Theatrical portraiture has always been a fascinating and profitable field for photographers situated in the principal centers of population, particularly Hollywood and New York, but recently the field has expanded with explosive force. The expanding influence has been, of course, television.If a good working partnership between parents and teachers can be started when a child first attends school and maintained throughout his school life, then parents and teachers can feel that they have given that child the fullest possible support. Most of what we have said about partnership is applicable to children of all ages. But when the child reaches secondary school, the focus of co-operation may well need to shift. While the formal PACT reading schemes we have discussed in this book have much to offer children in their first year or so at their new school, we recognize that if all secondary teachers and all parents are to maintain a partnership, more will be needed to bring them together.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the parents with whom this partnership is to be formed have their own opinions and feelings, which need into account. Teachers will find it possible to devise a set of guidelines for use by parents which they can feel perfectly confident about sharing. In our experience, though, there are one or two temptations to beware of One is to make your advice to parents much too complex, because of anxiety about parents getting it 'wrong'. |
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