[Leica] Why I called mr hajj a moron ...

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

I'm wondering if the editor who selected the image shouldn't be
looking for a job at the same time. I mean this one is OBVIOUSLY
manipulated. And yet it was selected and published.

Isn't there some sort of editorial process involved? And where the did
the suddenly revealed "original" image come from? Did the editor have
access to that one also? If so the selection is even MORE suspect.

Adam

On 8/8/06, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> walt sed:
>
> >I really don't see it that way. I have the greatest respect for Kyle
> and
> >his images but thought he might have been too quick to condemn. You
> >know, the old "mile in my dockers" kinda thing? If it seemed ill-
> >advised on my part then perhaps he will accept an apology? Maybe even
> >turn the other cheek and let me wonder why he referred to Hajj as a
> >moron? Maybe we all need to sit back, take a stress pill and relax?
>
> i do not doubt mr hajj's courage. only his photoshop skillz which are
> ---
> Childish -- at best. Any one of us could have shopped it better in 2
> minutes (which
> Is what I did). I doubt his mental capacity because he took such a ham
> handed image and actually handed it in to his photo editor. He might as
> Well have handed the guy a bananna.
>
> And as for how difficult it is to photograph people with unloaded guns,
> Let me tell you about lousiana. In lousiana, everybody has a gun. And as
> you go door-to-door photographing them, "southern hospitality" requires
> that
> They offer you burbon and ice. After five or six portraits one of your
> eyeballs is pointed in one direction and the other is bouncing up and
> down
> like a dribbled basketball. In this state it's very easy to become
> injured
> tripping over a curb or getting tangled in your own flash cord.
>
> I was in every bit as much peril as mr. hajj was from the roof of the
> Palestine hotel.
>
>
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