Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/2/02 11:39:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us writes: > I doubt very much that the family of man show would have the same effect now > as it did originally. It would seem overstated, naive, foolish. Although the > denial of history has become an integral part of the current dominating > ideology, we seem to have accepted that "human nature" is a chimera at best, > and cheap rhetoric (ulteriorly motivated) at worst. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is that our similarities take hold of opposed interests. For example, the differences between the Christian West and Islam aren't physical or neurological. They are mental constructs. It is at the level of underlying universal unity that Family of Man photographers and editors tended to see the world, not as conflicting world views that they felt were ephemeral. Photojournalists report the confrontation between and among world views. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html