Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Sally Mann (potentially offensive)
From: Bill Satterfield <cwsat@cyberhighway.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:44:22 -0500
References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006261506410.622-100000@echonyc.com> <3.0.6.32.20000626162451.008ee100@pop.microtec.net>

Do children of sunbathers have problems after thay grow up?

Dan Cardish wrote:

> Sally Mann's children must be almost grown up by now, why doesn't someone
> ask them how they feel about their photo legacy?  This is just pure
> speculation, but I suspect that they are suffereing no ill effects.
>
> Dan C.
>
> At 03:54 PM 26-06-00 -0400, Martin Howard wrote:
> >Doug Cooper jotted down the following:
> >
> >> Will her children grow up demented?
> >
> >I don't know Sally Mann from Eve, nor her photography (landscape, children,
> >or otherwise) but it seem to me that it's the children of the repressed
> >anally-retentive who grow up demented, especially if there's an unhealty
> >dose of religion thrown in for good measure.  The children of those who on
> >the opposite end of the scale (free-wheeling, do-anything libertairians)
> >seem to do much better.  Presumably because they were required to think for
> >themselves while growing up, rather than being force-fed fear and
> >guilt-trips.
> >
> >M.
> >
> >--
> >Martin Howard                     | "Jesus loves you.  Everyone else
> >Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU       | thinks you're an asshole, but
> >email: howard.390@osu.edu         | Jesus loves you."   -- Bumper sticker
> >www: http://mvhoward.i.am/        +---------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >

In reply to: Message from Doug Cooper <visigoth@echonyc.com> ([Leica] Sally Mann)
Message from Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> (Re: [Leica] Sally Mann (potentially offensive))