Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am just beginning to document the area of my town which was the 'Red Light Area' and there are very few working girls here now - they have all moved out of the area and work on mobile phones and the internet. Gerry - ----- Original Message ----- From: <ARTHURWG@aol.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: 28 June 2000 01:42 Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo Impact > Rob: I met a young photography student at ICP last year who did a wonderful > photo essay on prostitution by profiling one such woman she managed to > befriend. The color sequence examined every aspect of her (the prostitute's) > life, her paying customers and her friends. She was kinda a high-class call > girl, not a street walker so I guess it was easier in that sense. But the > essay was really sensational. BTW, on my last trip two trips to Italy I was > surprised to see so few street walkers, as compared to the situation in the > late 1960s. Arthur