Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I wonder how much those museum visitors without cameras are permitted to > stand in front of paintings or scupltures? Perhaps having a camera doesn't > always mean creating a back-up in traffic flow. This past summer in the > Vatican Museum, I had a camera and took many pictures but my walk through > the > museum was periodically impeded by those just standing and looking - > without > cameras. That's an insult to the art don't those people know they're supposed to keep moving at a steady pace!!?!? I was just reading Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon (here she is using a Graflex on top of a car http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Lange_car.jpg ) She was talking about the Family of Man exhibit which Lange had a hand in with Steichen. There was a shot of a lynching. They took it out because of the bottleneck it made in crowd control. The director of the show. Not Steichen or Lange of coarse. Gotta keep em moving! Mark William Rabiner