Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>-----Original Message----- >From: LawsonCL@aol.com [mailto:LawsonCL@aol.com] > >Uh, what is BJP? Its credentials? Its credibility? Its bias? >Could this >revelation be little more than revisionist whitewash? BJP is the British Journal of Photography - they are a weekly professional-oriented publication with a good presence online. They can be found at http://www.bjphoto.co.uk/ if you'd like to see for yourself. They put out the PPN - the Professional Photographers' Newsletter which is where this article appeared. I don't know how historically accurate this report is (do the words "historical" and "accuracy" actually belong in the same sentence?), but the publication appears to be reputable, at least on matters photographic. And just to emphasize something that should be obvious - not every new historical discovery that contradicts previous shibboleths is "revisionism", with all the pejorative baggage that word implies. Sometimes things that "everyone knew" were just wrong, and revising our understanding of them is a good thing. Paul Chefurka