Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, I don't know if you or others in that great country over there can get to Ottawa easily but I note that a very good exhibition is going there soon. Simon Norfolk - 'For Most Of It I Have No Words' Ottawa, Canada. Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Sept 22nd/Jan 14, 2000/ 'It is a commonly held belief, although a myth nonetheless, that the birds refuse to sing amongst the remains of the death camp at Auschwitz; but it is certainly one of the quietest places on God's earth. Perhaps this is because it is somewhere from which He turned and walked away.' Simon Norfolk has photographed sites of genocide. The names ring like a death toll for the twentieth century - Rwanda, Cambodia, Vietnam, Auschwitz, Dresden, Ukraine, Armenia, Namibia ... Charged with emotional intensity Norfolk's photographs document the human traces left behind: a tooth Iying in a field, or the worn steps of a death camp. December 9th, 1998 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations convention on genocide. As the twentieth century comes to a close this book is a profound comment on its worst atrocities. I saw the show in Liverpoool last year and found it very moving. extremely elegant and poignant pictures. regards, Jem > ---------- > From: Lucien[SMTP:director@ubi.edu] > > Ted Grant wrote: > > > R8 motors are a fairytale from the black forest, > > > Good to hear it's as quiet as you say, be interesting to have one in > hand. > > As far as I can determine not one R8 motor has ventured to the shores of > > Canada to date. > > Ted, > > It's normal, there is no Leica distributor there. > ;-) > > Lucien >