Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Salgado to speak in Seattle Feb 16
From: Dante Stella <dstella1@ameritech.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:40:37 -0500

No one has rehabilitated the bad guys. The point was that the Salgado
engages in the same kind of encoding, just with sympathetic subjects rather
than the perverted ubermenschen concept that Leni seemed to relish.

Dante

> 
>> As a preliminary issue, I find it hilarious that people went nuts about
> Leni
>> Reifenshtal because her message was inseparable from her photography, but
>> when there is some question about what Salgado is encoding in his
> pictures,
>> his work is politically neutral and completely meritorious.
> 
> One difference is that Leni was making deities out of Nazis.
> 
> I, for one, still subscribe to the old "the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi."
> 
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