Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 23:25:29 +0200, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> wrote: >From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 14:21 >Subject: RE: [Leica] What I did today > > >> No - Proof of how terrified people are of child molesters, >> who are generally men. > >I don't see the connection between molesting someone and taking a photograph. >Can you explain? > Anthony, you're not trying hard enough to get outside your own head and inside those of the people around you. In their minds, the scenario goes like this: - - Photographer takes a picture of little Sarah in the playground. - - Photographer keeps an eye on who little Sarah goes home with, hears Mummy call her by name, and maybe even finds out where she lives. - - Two days later Photographer sees little Sarah on the sidewalk, and recognizes her from the pictures he took. - - Photographer gets out of his car, and says "Hi, Sarah - remember me? I took some wonderful pictures of you in the park on Saturday. I showed them to your mummy said they're the best pictures anyone ever took of you. Would you like to see them?." Sarah says "Sure!" - - Photographer shows her the wonderful pictures, and shoots her a line about how fantastic she looks in them, and how there's a modeling contract she'd be perfect for, and how her mummy wants her to come home right away so they can talk about it and sign the papers. - - Sara gets all excited, and climbs into Photographer's car. - - Two weeks later she's found. Most of her, anyway. In fact, this scenario is not so fanciful. Here in Canada a very good 14-year-old gymnast named Allison Parrot went to meet a "press photographer" who telephoned her asking for a photo shoot. She still hasn't been found, though a man was recently arrested some 7 years after the apparent murder. Events like this stick in the public memory, and we are the unlucky beneficiaries. You may feel there's no link, but *they* do. Try and understand that. Paul Chefurka