Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks. I was actually annoyed by the background choices when I was taking it, but there wasn't much I could do. On that farm, you could either reorient into the sun (making a tough tonal range tougher) or into an even more busy background. Dante On Nov 23, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote: > > On 23/11/2006, at 9:41, Dante Stella wrote: > >> >> A friend is doing her PhD dissertation on the Herrero tribe and >> its relationship with Germany. I tagged along on one of the >> interviews, which took place on a farm (I haven't done the b/w >> film pics yet, but they will be interesting). >> >> http://www.dantestella.com/past/past76.html >> >> By the way, the traditional dress of the older women is patterned >> after the dresses worn by German colonial women in the 19th >> century. Better picture here: >> >> http://www.dantestella.com/past/past76a.html >> >> I found this interesting given that the Herrero have argued for >> decades that the German government attempted to commit genocide on >> the tribe early in the 20th (there is no question that a lot of >> Herreros were killed by soldiers, but there is apparently some >> dispute between the Herreros and the German government on whether >> a decision to kill 'all the Herreros' was a state act or the idea >> of a rogue German officer). >> >> In a way, things like this are vaguely reminiscent of those old >> Star Trek episodes where Kirk and Spock would come to planets with >> societies modeled after Chicago gangsters or Nazi Germany because >> someone on the planet got ahold of an earth history book. Or >> where people said ancient prayers that turned out to be a >> misquoted version of the U.S. Constitution. The moral of the >> story is that you can never go somewhere without leaving something >> behind! >> >> Dante > > Lovely group images and story: at first I was "annoyed" by the > background, but of course the importance of the "environment" grew > on me. Thanks > > Cheers > > Alastair > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information