Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Has anyone read Shutterbabe yet?
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 18:11:19 -0500

Wow!  I think we read different reviews.  I went back and read it again and 
nowhere does Reitman mention Kogan giving it all up to become a mother.  I 
didn't get the feminist angle at all - just that Kogan had betrayed the 
photojournalists' code (male included) by naming names.  Amazing how 
different we read things - Venus and Mars!

Tina


At 02:19 PM 2/1/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I read Reitman's review on Salon.  At the risk of sounding 
>unreconstructed, it came across to me as a traditional feminist rant.  It 
>was more a commentary on how hard Reitman had found journalism to be for a 
>woman, and how much the sisterhood needed to stick together.  Kogan's big 
>failing in Reitman's eyes seemed to be betraying the sisterhood by getting 
>out of field photojournalism after four years, going into TV, then giving 
>it all up to become a *gasp* mother.  Reitman spent a lot more 
>column-inches on her experiences in journalism than she did dismissing 
>Kogan's.  IMO Reitman's politics prevented her from being even remotely 
>objective about Kogan's book.  This was not a book review, it was a polemic.
>
>It made me want to read "Shutterbabe" more than ever.
>
>Paul

Tina Manley, ASMP
http://www.tinamanley.com

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