Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds like a great project. Count me in. I've been thinking about working on more black and white people photography, so this gives me a real motive for doing it. It'll give the old IIIf a real workout. As someone who is fairly PC (although I'm not sure fair and PC go together in some cases), I had to think about the title. My conclusion is that Family of Man II is perfectly acceptable given the context. Obviously PR associated with the project will have to deal with the context and with the name issue. So, as a senile middle-aged fart I agree with Ted. Full speed ahead and damn the slings! Ted wrote: > > I suppose I'm becoming a senile old fart or something. Yesterday while loading > an M6 preparing to shoot some "Family of Man II" things, I wondered how long > it would be before somebody came up with, "You can't call it Family of Man" any > longer! :-( > > It must be Family of .......Man & Woman or Man & Man or She & She! Or all of > the above~! Take yer pick! > > And surprise! Here is the first posting this morning! Damn! These days no > matter what title we pick for this wonderful Leica photo project, we're going > to get every damn twitchy assed political correct person coming down on it > because the title implies it's not right according to the "politically correct > standards of 2000!" > > And I bet I'm going to get my ass flamed for this, but I've reached a time in > my life when I don't give a hoop! Send on the fire and brimstone! The title > should stand as "Family of Man II!" and those who don't like it need not > participate or take jump in the ocean! Like I said, take yer pick! > > You can only satisfy some of the people some of the time, to hell with the > rest! Leica's away for the Family of Man II! Damn the slings and arrows full > speed a head! Or something like that. > > ted