Clients trusted the photographer precisely because his motives were transparently commercial

Evidence

Trade was brisk: every weekend he got through two or three films ‘cutting’ the girls. Whenever they saw him, they all wanted photos to send to their boyfriends and families. Some asked to be taken in the nude: ‘I was trusted by all of them; they knew that I was there for the money, that’s all. If one asked me to stay and do something, another will call for photo before.’ — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2346

Categorization

• XREF: A tight link to the reader’s observability thesis: the girls trusted him because his interest was legible and bounded — transparency of motive substitutes for monitoring capacity.