Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And yet, how much of it is just plain Sontag. Being one of the New World Order's original pied-pipers, I can bet that there won't any soul searching on her part. Thankfully her petard has just about run its historical course. This piece of taffy reads more like the kind of press release DoD wished it could do. It reads, somewhat, as though from another time, when there existed a kind of intellectual golem, nationally and internationally, which another Federal agency was able to garner in its camp during the Cold War's culture wars. S. Dimitrov > From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:57:09 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos > > At 12:11 PM 5/24/2004 -0400, you wrote: >> Cover story in yesterday's NYT Magazine entitled The Photographs Are Us. >> It is much more a piece about the U.S., Iraq and torture than about >> photography, but she makes some interesting observations about the >> photos. Similarly, Sarah Boxer had a Times column yesterday on the same >> subject. > > I kept hoping that the photos would be revealed to be hoaxes like the ones > of the British soldiers. I guess I have too much faith in the ultimate > humanity of most people to believe that such things actually happen. We > need to know about it when it happens but I am so tired of hearing of > nothing but how horrible we all are. It's time for me to go to Honduras > with a medical brigade and renew my faith in humanity. > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information