Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/12

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Subject: Re: Seeing (was: Blind test)
From: Shawn London <st942432@pip.cc.brandeis.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 97 17:14:05 -0400
 
>really changed my life.  I'm a struggling art gallery owner in Greenwich
>Village and had been wondering why it was that nobody was buying photographs
>from our latest exhibition, PICTURES BY THE BLIND, and when I would ask
>people I respect -- Frank Webster, Ainslie Ellis, Joan Fontcuberta -- they
>would all say, "It's because you've been skimping on the equipment budget
>for your blind photographers!"  

All jokes aside, you should rent a movie made in Australia by the name of 
"Proof", which really is about a bilnd photographer.  It examines a lot 
of the meanings and implications of photographs and is rather 
entertaining...