Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/14/03 8:26:45 AM, jbcollier@shaw.ca writes: << The article stated that he is accused of doing those acts while the victim was unconscious; in other words, aggravated assault and sexual contact without consent (i.e.: rape). There is also the inference that Bob may have supplied the drugs in question which would at least add the charge of manslaughter; perhaps even second degree murder depending any motive. John Collier >> You know what, papers love scandal. Sells more papers. Who knows what the real story is here. Bob Shell perv freak? Marion Franklin victim of Bob's evil ways? Maybe Bob Shell was trying to help someone who was addicted to drugs and rather than send her to a detox center he enabled her, took photos of her, and she simply died at his studio. Maybe Bob was mainly a friend but fell helplessly in love with someone half his age (lots of older men do this as they approach their male menopause). Maybe the drugs were forcefully administered to Marion, maybe they were into kinky sex/edge play where one party consentually enters into the realm of semi or quasi consciousness, that is consentual but dangerous nevertheless. Maybe her being incapacitated meant that she was into bondage and that she was tied up and not unconscious. Who knows? I do know that when a photographer goes from shooting simply flowers and snapshots of clothed family you can get into the realm of a world of shit. Photographers who shoot street protests can get clubbed, their leica's actually bruised. Photographers who shoots a verboten subject can get arrested, questioned, perhaps put on some secret governmental patriot act III list of possible threat to the US. Photographers who shoot unclothed subjects can depending on where they live and what they shoot be accused or at least swiped with the veneer of pornography. Just look at what happened to Sally Mann and her photos of children, naked children. Sally Mann, pornographer? I don't presume to know what happened in this case. I don't know the motivations of the local police, or whether a prosecutor is up for re-election or looking for higher office, or whether Bob is really a piece of pond scum or a perpetrator of bad judgement by taking drugs and having sex with 19 year old girl/women who take drugs as well. In any case, involving a photographer who shoots nudes, I always wait to hear all sides of the story. Why? Because it's such a titilating subject and in our sexually repressive society, facts can often get lost in the way of scandal. What is obvious is that a 19 year young women is dead. And that is a tragedy. Of course lots of 19 year old women died in the world the last few days, most that we'll never hear about because they died in far away places and died of starvation, war, as battered wives or whatnot. They all have died too young and I hope whoever was responsible in all their cases, get a taste of justice in the end. - -Kim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html