Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 23/10/00 10:17 am, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > Damn, JD, do NOT confuse me and my observations with those of ... Sorry, BD, I hate misattributions and that was my fault. I didn't even notice who I was responding too, it was just the words. I am pretty tired of photographs of photographer scrums. No, let me rephrase that. I am totally bored by them. They are generally a LOT easier to take than a photograph which lays bare the nature of the event, but they can give you a nice smug feeling of how clever you are when you take them, thinking that you are saying something deep, when in fact you are reiterating a sophomoric cliche. See PUBLIC RELATIONS by G Winogrand for a very early and very non-sophomoric nailing of this subject. I think it distracts attention from the real issue. The real issue here, despite that pikcha, is bullets and land and lives, not how many photographers you can fit on the head of a pin. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com