[Leica] No photography in Museum

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

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> 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. 
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> 
> 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!


aside from that, nothing else worth stopping for,  I guess,

Steve


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> Mark William Rabiner
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