context: Lindner had twenty-five years experience as a professional photographer when defendants hired him and defendants "do not question [plaintiffs] application of technical skill, which was the reason he was hired." (Defs.' Br. at 3; Munn Reply Aff. P 8.) The record is bereft of any evidence that defendants possessed any technical photographic skills.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.parenthetical: photographer is not merely a "mechanical" extension of hiring party
citation_a.sentence: See Marco, 969 F.2d at 1551 (noting that defendant although himself an art director had hired a' professional photographer because the photographer is “the person who makes the shot work,” and describing the photographer as “certainly skilled in the sense that Reid, the sculptor in the Reid case, was skilled”); cf. Morita v. Omni Publications, Int’l, Ltd., 741 F.Supp. 1107 (S.D.N.Y.1990) (photographer is not merely a “mechanical” extension of hiring party).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 969 F.2d 1551, 1551
citation_b.parenthetical: noting that defendant although himself an art director had hired a' professional photographer because the photographer is "the person who makes the shot work," and describing the photographer as "certainly skilled in the sense that Reid, the sculptor in the Reid case, was skilled"
citation_b.sentence: See Marco, 969 F.2d at 1551 (noting that defendant although himself an art director had hired a' professional photographer because the photographer is “the person who makes the shot work,” and describing the photographer as “certainly skilled in the sense that Reid, the sculptor in the Reid case, was skilled”); cf. Morita v. Omni Publications, Int’l, Ltd., 741 F.Supp. 1107 (S.D.N.Y.1990) (photographer is not merely a “mechanical” extension of hiring party).