Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica]Sontag et al
From: ARTHURWG@aol.com
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:41:48 EDT
 
From "On Photography."

"Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven fell about not 
working....They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of 
work: they can take pictures." 


"....The one who wears a different expression holds a camera to his eye; he 
seems self possessed, is almost smiling . While the others are passive, 
clearly alarmed spectators, having a camera has transformed one person into 
something active, a voyeur:only he has mastered the situation."


Arthur