Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Roger Beamon writes: - -Remember what happened when Oddmund chose to go political on this list. This was slightly before my time. I have carefully reviewed Oddmund's postings using the newly developed search engine. It seems to me that Oddmund's posting were perfectly rational. He pretty clearly stated his point of view. He stated that he was doing photography from that viewpoint (which appears to have been a European socialist viewpoint). And apparently he implemented that viewpoint. The viewpoint was closely tied to Leica and other rangefinder cameras. While you might interpret it as political, I did not interpret it as outside the scope of a Leica or rangefinfder street photographer. Much more honest than our current crop of PJs who impose their political values in secret. Also much more honest than the two political party system (which would be one party in most parts of the world) that the US Constitution makes de facto upon the US. The problem seemed to have come from the knee-jerk reactionaries on the list. Regards, Bill Larsen ohlen@lightspeed.net