Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whether or not they are suffering ill effects is not the question....the question is whether or not they were taken advantage of....and there, I would argue, the answer is incredibly obvious...But asking them is pretty meaningless...it's like asking the prisoner, in the "old days," who participated in a medical experiment to get time off his sentence, whether he felt coerced...Hell, no, he'd say...but viewed from afar, he was the victim of coercion.... > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Dan Cardish > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 4:25 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Sally Mann (potentially offensive) > > > Sally Mann's children must be almost grown up by now, why doesn't someone > ask them how they feel about their photo legacy? This is just pure > speculation, but I suspect that they are suffereing no ill effects. > > Dan C. > > At 03:54 PM 26-06-00 -0400, Martin Howard wrote: > >Doug Cooper jotted down the following: > > > >> Will her children grow up demented? > > > >I don't know Sally Mann from Eve, nor her photography > (landscape, children, > >or otherwise) but it seem to me that it's the children of the repressed > >anally-retentive who grow up demented, especially if there's an unhealty > >dose of religion thrown in for good measure. The children of > those who on > >the opposite end of the scale (free-wheeling, do-anything libertairians) > >seem to do much better. Presumably because they were required > to think for > >themselves while growing up, rather than being force-fed fear and > >guilt-trips. > > > >M. > > > >-- > >Martin Howard | "Jesus loves you. Everyone else > >Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | thinks you're an asshole, but > >email: howard.390@osu.edu | Jesus loves you." -- Bumper sticker > >www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ > +--------------------------------------- > > > > > > >