Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bullets, land, lives, and ancient and utterly irrational hatreds - not to put to fine a point on it.....time for a relisten to Dylan's "God On Our Side"... Poor God, the "Sybil" of the Cosmos!;-) Johnny Deadman wrote: > 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