Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, >>Why do you and others somehow object to my expressing what I think? Volume I can understand, content, forget it. Why should we have to put a disclaimer on every message saying this is our opinion. When is it NOT? << So, if I understand you correctly, what you think is NOT your opinion? Bryan - ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: ON COLOR > At 08:42 PM 11/29/1999 -0800, Roy Feldman wrote: > >I really wasn't aware of your great power to proclaim one photographer > >better than another(hell, I didn't even know it was a contest). I prefer > >some photographers over others, but to place one over the other is a gift > >,apparently Szarkowski never conferred with you on his decision > > Hey, if you can't take people saying what they think without feeling > somehow assaulted, you'd better get off the Internet, because we're not > about to stop just because you think we are oppressing you. Why not accept > that we aren't going to bow down to the great John Szarkowski or anyone > else when we disagree with them? > > I don't accept that it takes some New York curator (New Yorkers often don't > get the kind of photography I relate to), or some elite museum to tell me > what and who I should like. And I don't expect anyone to just take my word > for who is great either. Why do you and others somehow object to my > expressing what I think? Volume I can understand, content, forget it. Why > should we have to put a disclaimer on every message saying this is our > opinion. When is it NOT? Maybe in the character of Erwin's posts, but > that's about it. > > Those photographers you mention are pretty good. But they are not the be > all and end all of photography. Shoot, they don't even do color, so they > are out of the scope of this topic, no? > > Eric Welch > Carlsbad, CA > > http://www.neteze.com/ewelch > > Ernest Hemingway's writing reminds me of the farting of an old horse. > - E.B. White >