Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: I commend to your attention
From: "Mārtiņš Zelmenis" <martin@lrpv.lv>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:46:55 +0300

Dear Simon -

- - - - another 0.2 worth - - -

what you're talking about is _BIAS_. It's as if only the very undercalss can
suffer/ have feelings - etc. I have been in your shoes before - sorts of.
Being from an ex-communist country it is hard for me to show my stuff - as I
am not too concerned about the ugliest sides of life - but nobody seems to
care how the daily life was to be lived under the commies.

Yours
Martin


Walt wrote:

>Is it "art"?...I don't know or care....I just know that long after the
victim/
>artist/abused/suffering persons' MFA project is in the trash, these
"honest"
>photos will be around to tell our descendents "HOW WE LOOKED"...

Ha! I tried that argument in 1985 during an interview for a BA in
photography slot at the Polytechnic of Central London to explain why my
portfolio didn't have re regeur pictures of the oppressed/unemployed
etc. Instead, I had photographed the people in the town in which I lived
(who were mostly not oppressed and were employed). Suffice to say I was
NOT offered a place in the class. . . fortunately.

Simon Stevens

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