A policeman from the vice squad took copious notes while a distributor of hard-core videos, Anna Kieran, denounced the "market-trader mentality" of "cowboys" who give the industry an "image problem .Along with negotiating lower insurance premiums, credit card charges and other prosaic questions, the big issue was planning the sex industry's event of the year, the Erotica exhibition in November.
You see them negotiating their images in the contact sheets.
"He's polished up his image," said Mr. Pare, who is negotiating to sell an archive of about 10,000 negatives to Mr. Gordeev.
I have retained the image of the young swimmer negotiating the waters in her salwar kameez, steering between competing expectations, while I have been researching a book about the earlier time when "modern ideas" first arrived in the Middle East from the newly dominant west.
Berlioz excels at raw bigness; the overtures, in particular, are striking for the hugeness of their movement, sending the whole massed body of instruments cascading down passages of rapid runs, conjuring up the image of an elephant gracefully negotiating en pointe.
Drawing on patients' personal testimonies, medical texts and artist and patient notes, the exhibition seeks to give sufferers a voice, and explore whether images can help negotiate between different perspectives.
The emotional structure underlying them is very fluid and multiple but these images help to negotiate emotional fallout surrounding gender conflict between men and women in Japan and on some level do put into view male fantasies of infantilizing women.
Meanwhile, they tried to project the image of a normal home life while negotiating for ransom with Exxon.
"I have benefited from their experience in negotiating rates, working conditions, terms and image use," she said.
Encouraging a positive self-image, she added, improves their decision-making and negotiating skills with regard to sexuality, violence and drug abuse.
Image rights deals can be complex and, depending on which side of the table a journalist's source was sitting on when the deal was negotiated, the image rights may not be included in the information they receive when they ask how much the player will be earning on his new deal.
