Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Seriously, folks (long).
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:17:24 -0700

At 12:12 PM +0100 9/17/99, Johnny Deadman wrote:

>All the talk about restaging & interference in accident scenes etc. prompts
>me to decloak and give you another perspective on this. For the last nine
>years I have been a documentary filmmaker (switched careers in April to
>writing), which I came to from documentary photography.

<snip>

A courageous statement, with the full ring of truth. Truth, and the people
who live it are always more complex than we can easily deal with. In this
context, I will also respond to an earlier Iwo Jima post:

At 12:50 PM -0400 9/16/99, TEXWORKER@aol.com wrote:
>Well put Ted, don't you just love revisionists side of history?
>Clifton

'History' is a matter of viewpoint. After a while, many think it is the
truth. The truth is always more complex.

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