Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"As for Kyle, I think it's fine for him to take pictures of anything he wants as well. And to post them, or publish them wherever he likes." Often disputes involving the ethics of photography are redolent of baleful, fundamentalist injunctions by ayatollahs and rebbes alike against representation, and it is unclear when if at all compassion and artistic endeavor intersect. Some of the subjects inhabiting the photographs of Diane Arbus seem neither more nor less real than those in paintings by Francis Bacon. Despite the fact that the causal chain leading to the latter's subjects may be more circuitous, only a mad few would presume to have told Bacon what and whom to depict. Counterexamples abound perhaps, but at the risk of conflating whether a work is successful with its right to exist. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.