Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Wow! I think we read different reviews. I went back and read it again and > nowhere does Reitman mention Kogan giving it all up to become a mother. I > didn't get the feminist angle at all - just that Kogan had betrayed the > photojournalists' code (male included) by naming names. Amazing how > different we read things - Venus and Mars! > > Tina I think you are wrong Tina. I read it and at the end that is what it said, gave up PJ to be a mom. Steve Annapoolis > > At 02:19 PM 2/1/01 -0800, you wrote: >>I read Reitman's review on Salon. At the risk of sounding >>unreconstructed, it came across to me as a traditional feminist rant. It >>was more a commentary on how hard Reitman had found journalism to be for a >>woman, and how much the sisterhood needed to stick together. Kogan's big >>failing in Reitman's eyes seemed to be betraying the sisterhood by getting >>out of field photojournalism after four years, going into TV, then giving >>it all up to become a *gasp* mother. Reitman spent a lot more >>column-inches on her experiences in journalism than she did dismissing >>Kogan's. IMO Reitman's politics prevented her from being even remotely >>objective about Kogan's book. This was not a book review, it was a polemic. >> >>It made me want to read "Shutterbabe" more than ever. >> >>Paul > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com >