Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/05

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Subject: [Leica] Jill Greenberg's Distressed Children
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed Jul 5 14:37:34 2006
References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060705141614.06cac798@infoave.net> <A98D4A89-ED21-4F67-9101-2A0ED7502614@pandora.be> <A5E5C43D-87B1-429C-B6BB-6BA4C109BE6C@interlink.es>

Exactly the opposite of Geddins awful plant-pot babies - and just as bad 
taste.
All undressed, all screaming - nobody in their right mind can  believe 
that these are naturally posed kids - in my books there's some 
mistreatment  going on here somewhere.
Douglas


Luis Miguel Casta?eda wrote:

> On 05/07/2006, at 21:44, Philippe Orlent wrote:
>
>> If she is provoking it, it is absolutely not done and she should be  
>> prosecuted.
>
>
> Imho:
> - those pictures are just gratuite snapshots with no point, no  
> message, and nothing more to tell that the photographer's idea. On  
> *the same hand*, they don't communicate any emotion, just artificial  
> child moaning for who-knows-what.
> - the aesthetics aren't my cup of tea
> - she was looking to provoke, and she's hitting his target
> - just boring stuff and a artificious polemic
> - making profit of bad taste is becoming a common practice
>
> dot
>
>
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