Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, indeed, she is one smart cookie. As is her photographer friend. ;-) And did she really write for a tabloid? Come on ... which one? Kit - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:39 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Pictures and Privacy/Film Industry/Susan Sontag, too! Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > > This is an issue I've had since the 70's with the academic and art > world, with their bounders constantly straying into photography's arena. > I don't take well to their effrontery and verbal vomiteria. > As far as Sontag saying anything meaningful about the craft, history can > decide that. I don't see her as anything more than a tabloid writer, > i.e. magazine, etc., masquerading as a thinker and intellectual. But > then that is the bane within our period of modernity. With mass > communication, comes the petty intellectual, not too dissimilar from its > counterpart in the petty bourgeoisie from an earlier era. > Slobodan Dimitrov > I had the same opinion until I read her book. Hardly a page goes by that does not turn your head around, prick up your ears, raise your eyebrows, and wiggle your nose. This women is a true intellect if you ask me. woof A friend of mine was a tabloid writer. That sat around a round table and who ever thought of the most ridiculous thing to write about got 500 dollars! Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA Photography Website: http://www.rabinergroup.com Email: mark@rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html