Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/09

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Steady as she goes there, lad [y]
From: "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:10:13 -0700
References: <200010090734.JAA12305@d1o15.telia.com>

On 9 Oct 2000, B. D. Colen wrote, at least in part:

> AND DR. BLACKTAPE HAS ANOTHER OBSERVATION IN RESPONSE TO THIS
> THREAD....
> 
> ...Isn't it interesting, given how outraged some LUGers seemed to
> get about Susan Sontag's comments about photography being an
> aggressive act, how many people not only comment on, but have
> given no end of thought to, the relationship between photography,
> marksmanship, pistol shooting, and breathing techniques for target
> shooting. :-)

The two are mutually exclusive, B.D.

Sontag castigates the craft; the other discussion merely 
compares the similarities, or lack of them, of two different craft.

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Replies: Reply from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] RE: Steady as she goes there, lad [y])
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