Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for your thoughtful article, Brian. It inspires me to think more about the on-line community of friends and neighbors. Way back when the "global village" was proposed, I pictured it as a huge community spanning everyone on the planet. Now, through groups like the LUG, I realize today that "village" means something small and intimate within the global communications network, and you captured that feeling so well in a beautiful eulogy. Perhaps your words are a part of the monument to Matt Tracy which you're looking for. Mere words do, however, seem less substantial than your Anglican grave markers or those ancient headstones I saw in Yorkshire churchyards a year ago. Your writing touched other chords, too. I lived in Cleveland in 1965, roaming the "Flats" with a Ricoh Singlex, documenting a wilderness of steel plants and coal yards, sneaking photos in the downtown outdoor produce market, and vainly searching the greasy-spoon menu for something new at the only diner within walking distance of my rented room near West 25th and Dennison. Pittsburgh sounded similar. I'm looking forward to seeing the W Eugene Smith photos in Dream Street. Thanks, too, for a glimpse of your friend, Matt, along with the special presence in your words when two or more are gathered. Regards, Gary Todoroff - ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Reid > I saw the W Eugene Smith exhibit at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh > yesterday. Now I'm back in California trying to make sense of it all. > Because I am more experienced as a writer than as a photographer, I dealt > with my reactions to it by writing about it rather than by running out to > take pictures. If you don't mind the religious context of my essay about > Smith's work, you can see what I had to say about it here: > > http://anglicansonline.org/resources/essays/reid/together.html > > Although I wrote this for a religious audience, I think its core message, > about virtual communities changing cities for the better, is quite > applicable to the LUG. > > In the essay I mention the book rather than the exhibit because I think the > book will be accessible to more people. The prints hanging on the wall are > amazing beyond measure. That man knew how to take pictures and he knew how > to print them. I think that if he'd had Photoshop 6 available to him, he'd > be alive today. > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html