Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Auftragsarbeit
English translation:
commissioned work
Added to glossary by
Terence Ajbro
Aug 24, 2004 08:27
19 yrs ago
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German term
Auftragsarbeit
German to English
Marketing
Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
What do you call it when photographers are instructed by either a company or a newspaper to take pictures for advertising either a product or a service? What do you call the order to do the job or how do you generally call the kind of job they do? They do not decide on how to do the job but their customers do. They receive an order.
Proposed translations
(English)
3 +3 | commissioned work | Terence Ajbro |
4 +1 | Commission | Orla Ryan |
4 | Contract work | Jeremy Amos |
Proposed translations
+3
1 min
Selected
commissioned work
Is what I think it is.
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+1
14 mins
Commission
Commission on its own is OK too.
2 hrs
Contract work
Just an alternative suggestion - my instinct would be that commissions are more in the fine arts (photography being included in this field or not, depending on exactly what sort of photography it is). What we as freelance translators do, for example, is contract work, we do not take on commissions, but jobs or contracts.
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