Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave Yoder wrote: ><snip> > Dave Yoder > > p.s. Though it was a great movie (and a better short-story, IMHO), I was > appalled by the movie "Blow Up." Maybe what is now an unfortunate > stereotype was a novel character role when it came out. Regardless, it > feels like I've spent half my career overcoming that kind of image > people expect from photographers. Adding to the fact that some photographers coming out of that generation thought this was our role model... Being a photographer a license to be an general creep. You've heard of cool geeks? Well this was a cool creep. But he was redeemed when he threw the mime back his invisible tennis ball at 6 AM. How close or better or different was the short story and what was it called and who wrote it? Mark Rabiner