So despite my best intentions, I stayed up and watched that to the end last night... :-)
Yeah, it's all magical stuff that improves over time...
It was surprising to hear the 'pundit' say that during the 70s it was quite unusual for photographers to be going off around the world on shoots; I was doing that, to one degree or another, pretty much from the mid/late-sixties until the mid/late-eighties or thereabouts. It seems to me that either I was a damned sight more fortunate than I'd imagined, or that the experience was very much tied up with, and possibly almost exclusive to fashion/calendar shoots, of which there were many during that period. I know that a lot of people who did that stuff got out, but like myself, it was probably more a matter of the changing times and mores than of choice.
Many lifestyle photographers also floated shoots here, there and everywhere just for stock; imagine that faith in investment today! Yeah, a lot has been screwed, and I sometimes feel saddened by those who gloat and feel happy about that; how much better had they had the balls to join the game and not just screw it out of ego and 'me too!'. In the end, they didn't get to bite the golden apple either, just rotted it for everybody.
Rob