[Leica] Re: world press winners 2006

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

B.D.,
I asked that as my experience has been completely different.  My daughters
crowd is just a notch down from the MIT students.  They are only in Yale,
Dartmouth, UPenn, Chicago, Oxford, and Berkely but their knowledge is vast.
You can discuss obscure German philosophy then what is going on in Darfur
then latest bands, then the economics of the trade deficit as it relates
to bond yield inversions.

Then there is the reading, these kids devour the written word, Doestevsky
for fun, Gladwell for a bit of light reading.  None of them have set up an
orphanage in the back yard, but all of them participate extensively in help
for the disadvantaged: one is teaching creative writing to inner city seven
and eight year olds, another works with physical rehabilitation for children
devestated by muscular diseases, another is heavily involved in an anti land
mine organisation, another works in an outreach law office so that the
poorest of the poor can get decent legal representation.

I guess that what I am saying is that there are at least some of the rising
generation that embody the best of what we want our children to be, smart,
caring, involved, and patient with their old geezer parents. :)

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 2/12/06, B. D. Colen <bd_colen@harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> No Don, it doesn' mean that at all. These are MIT students, not J school
> or art school students. And of course most of them ae taking it because 
> they
> think it's going to be easy - little do they know. :-)
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> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:21:31 -0500 Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:
> "B.D.
> "It just means that pj is a dead/dying occupation.  Top of the list young
> "adults who have not acknowledged one of the movers and shakers of
> "photography.   I might have asked about a current major
> "photographer(Natchaway or your friend of The Big Dig) to get a feel
> whether
> "they were interested in the field or just looking for an easy credit. :)
> "
> "Brian's daughter is at MIT.  If you recall he was off list two years ago
> "driving her and the stuff to MIT.  Wellesly?, hahahaha, you should know
> "Brian better than that.
> "
> "Don
> "don.dory@gmail.com
> "
> "
> "On 2/11/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
> ">
> "> How's this for depressing? Thursday night I handed out a "pop quiz" to
> the
> "> first meeting of my MIT doc photo/pj class. It was ridiculously simple,
> "> and
> "> was designed to give me a way to throw out anyone I needed to throw out
> "> because I always have too many kids sign up. One question was:
> ">
> "> 2. Who coined the phrase ?the decisive moment??
> ">            A. Susan Sontag
> ">            B. Mathew Brady
> ">            C. Henri Cartier-Bresson
> ">            D. None of the above
> "> Only THREE of 19 MIT students got it right - and I think they were
> "> guessing,
> "> because not one of the kids later acknowledged being familiar with
> HCB's
> "> work. Further, NOT ONE knew what Magnum was. Oh, most frequent guess on
> "> question 2? Susan Sontag. :-(
> ">
> "> Fookin kids! :-(
> ">
> "> B. D.
> ">
> ">
> "> On 2/11/06 9:37 AM, "Craig Schroeder" <craig@craigschroeder.com> wrote:
> ">
> "> >
> "> >>>
> "> >>>
> "> >>> Like I said , it's far more important to be where these events
> happen,
> "> >>> otherwise you never have the opportunities to capture the pictures.
> "> >>>
> "> >>
> "> >> I've always thought the phrase: "f8 and be there" summed this up
> rather
> "> >> nicely.
> "> >>
> "> >> Emanuel
> "> >>
> "> >>
> "> > At my age, it's, F-what and be where?
> "> >
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