Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You've got the point, Marc ! Chris *********** REPLY PARTITION *********** On 08/21/97, at 12:56 PM, Marc James Small wrote: >The lady was and is a superb photographer. She did what was necessary at >the time to have her work published. She was never a Nazi, in any regard, >though she was a long-time lover of Albrecht Speer, Hitler's architect,= and >a favorite of Joseph Goebbels. > >Are we to condemn people because of the regime under which they must work? >Let's not jump to any conclusions here -- there are documented US war >atrocities in the Second Imbroglio, and I haven't heard a bit of >condemnation of, say, Carl Mydans for photographing the war in detail. > >No, Leni did the best in troubled times. I doubt if any of us would have >done much differently, given the tenor of the times in which she worked. >Riefenstahl's "Nazi" work was at an early period, before the Camps, before >Crystal Night, before the true nature of totalitarian rule was revealed. >(A warning to those of us who worry in the night about the 'there oughta= be >a law' mentality which afflicts the US public: that was precisely how the >Nazi's got started.) > >No, give MS Riefenstahl a rest. She is a magnificent photographer with a >magnificent ouevre developed over seventy years of active work. > >Marc > > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >