Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 07:06:26 -0700 From: "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org> Subject: [Leica] Re: What me worry? Message-ID: <39E16E72.20914.4E7828@localhost> References: On 9 Oct 2000, Robert Appleby wrote, at least in part: <mercifully snipped> > WFH is not a suitable model. > Anyway, enough. Sure is enough, Bob on this Leica dedicated list. What we do not need is someone or group deciding what work properly has the issue of individual rights attached. Individual rights are not (or shouldn't be) an issue. They should be a given. Yessir, socialism über alles! Good grief, Oddman is again in our midst. Leica...please! I will never knowingly initiate political threads, but when they arrive in my dedicated Leica box, and they are as controversial as this stuff, I can not help but comment if I expect to sleep at night. <<<< Wow Roger, certainly got your knickers twisted over that! I was simply responding to Guy's direct question on list. It had a photographic reference in that it came out of the Gates/Corbis discussion and furthermore, I noted its off list nature at the top. As for "rights are not (or shouldn't be) an issue", they are the whole issue, matey. That's what the thread was all about. Various other people seem to have been contributing to the thread quite happily and reading it, presumably with interest. Photography for me is not about fiddling with equipment or enjoying the silky smooth feel of my M2 shutter release (or was it the M3 that had a particularly luxurious feel?), but about exploring and expressing my social concerns and interests. You laud the "concerned photographer", but he'd better be a capitalist if he wants to speak on this list?! Too bad... Rob. Robert Appleby V. Bellentani 36 41100 MO Italy tel. (+39) 059 303436 mob. (+39) 0348 336 7990