Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:43 PM 8/29/00 -0700, Paul Chefurka wrote: > >I'm not sure I understand you here, Jim. Where do you draw your line and >say "this is OK, that isn't" in cases like this? Is Natchwey's "Inferno" >not a personal portfolio, and based on the individual misery of many people? >What about "Minimata" - that essay violates the fine art/misery proscription >pretty handily. > <snip> > >Paul Chefurka I believe the premise behind the publications you mention and subsequent lectures to audiences around the world by the authors, was entirely different than simply posting the photos as a statement of photographic ability. If Kyle produced an essay or even a simple published photo book on self mutilation and then lectured (like Natchwey) on the subject, the "connotation of self-indulgence" would be absent. And the negative feedback would not have existed. Kyle's long term photographic vocation is unknown to us and his photography could indeed become the catalyst that saves the very souls that he is photographing. More power to him. I could not do it. Jim