Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/24

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon May 24 19:03:30 2004

Most of it is, indeed, vintage Sontag, and is simply an ant-US screed.
That said, the observations about GIs and cameras are interesting, as, I
believe is the comparison of the photos to the lynching photos.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Slobodan Dimitrov
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 9:08 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos


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

_______________________________________________
Leica Users Group.
See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information


In reply to: Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos)