Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/26

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Suzy Q, again
From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:44:13 -0700
 
:-)  Well, Arthur, you got your wish - a discussion appears to have broken
out.

Paul

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ARTHURWG@aol.com [mailto:ARTHURWG@aol.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 3:26 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Suzy Q, again
>
>
>"There is an agression implicit in every use of the Camera." 
>
>"Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced 
>an amusement as 
>sex and dancing..." 
>
>"A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a 
>way of refusing 
>it-- by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by 
>converting 
>experience into an image, a souvenir."
>
>"it would not be wrong to speak of people having a ' compulsion' to 
>photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing."
>
>"Needing to have reality confirmed and experienced enhanced by 
>photographs is 
>an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now adicted." 
>
>                                                            
>--Susan Sontag
>Arthur
>