Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Sonny -- look at the shots: he's not making people uncomfortable and then > shooting them; he's making other people uncomfortable by being there taking > pictures at all. The people he's shooting look all kinds of ways but none > is > snarling at the camera in the manner of JD Salinger the day the boys from > the NY Post jumped out in front of him from their van in Hanover or > whatever > the NH town was. So I'm talking about the big "them", the burghers and > merchants and police; the "citizens" as William Burroughs put it. What I > was > essentially saying was: Since they're after him now, I'm on his side and > I'm > sure he's on the right track. It's a romantic kneejerk bohemianism in many > ways but, in this age of zero counterculture, it beats all the alternative > points of view I can see to choose from. I'm in. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner