Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BD, I strongly disagree. Hitler was a terrible painter! I am not kidding, his work stunk. John Collier I like some of Leni's work and the two of her films I have seen were incredible. I also like Wagner's music but he, and his family, seem to be about the most screwed up people on the face of the earth. Still enjoy the music though... > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > > BIG BIG BIG BIG difference between being one of the leading propagandists, > apologists, artistic pets for one of the most perverse mass murders in human > history, and being a shmuck, or having politics different from ones own. > John Wayne's politics make me ill - I love his movies. BIG difference. > > I have to say I am really appalled by the "oh, but you have to look at the > art and ignore the politics" theme that recurs here from time to time. That > is absolute BS. If one wants to make the argument that Leni must be included > in a study of the history of documentary film making, no argument. But to > say, 'oh, look at these wonderful photos and overlook the politics?" Sorry, > but no way. That's really like saying, "That Hitler was really pretty > twisted, but he did some interesting little paintings." > > B. D. > > BTW - The Nubian stuff that everyone oooos and ahhhs over was, in essence, > just a rip-off of the work done earlier in B&W by George Rodgers, co-founder > of Magnum - who, ironically, after covering the liberation of the death > camps decided he could no longer deal with covering man's inhumanity to man, > and headed for more peaceful photographic pastures. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html