Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have to agree with Chandos, since the passage makes a lot of sense... When I try to picture the American War Between the States, the images of the Brady gang of photographers comes to mind. When I try to picture the Spanish Civil War, or the Second World War, some very famous images come to mind. Do those images really capture what the entire events were really about, on a personal and global scale? Really doubtful; they're symbols at best, but as the memories of the realities fade, only the photos remain. On a personal level, I find that I can remember all kinds of details of vacations past, events that occured and things that were said. I can remember this until I see the photos. Then the photos take primacy, and I can remember the events in the photos, but forget all the other millions of events that occured during the vacation. No wonder the Druids forced complete memorization and shunned the written language. Sontag was lionized a decade or two ago, now she is despised, so it's probably a good bet that she'll shortly be rediscovered and found to have been full of insight all along! Dave In a message dated 09/08/2000 9:42:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, cmbrow@wm.edu writes: << What, precisely, is objectionable about this passage? Chandos At 08:17 AM 9/8/2000 -0500, you wrote: > > In America the photographer is not simply the > > > person who records the past, but the one who invents it. > > > Susan Sontag