Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Speaking of Shutterbabes (OT)
From: "David Kieltyka" <daverk@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:05:08 -0500

pjs <pjs@worldpath.net> wrote:

> Natacha Merritt's Web site for _Digital Diaries_ is pretty slick.
> Makes me wish I had one of those high speed connections. Hand
> held, available light, documentary photography used to be the
> domain of the Leica. In our brave new digital world, that no
> longer seems to true. At least we still have tripods and
> Kodachrome. :+)

I checked out the site. The photos seem to me even less "real" than those of
the Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends dude. (He used paid models for the
pics.) This is sex as depicted by someone whose knowledge of the subject
either comes from the Adult Film Industry or whose style is bound by the
conceits of said Industry. IMO.

- -Dave-