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: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:12:21 -0800
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At 10:24 PM -0600 2/11/02, Matthew Powell wrote:
>  > 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."

Photographers make deities out of their subjects. It happens if their 
photography is good.

My father was drafted into the German army when he was 19, and sent 
to the Russian front when a medical student. He died in a car crash 
in the early 60's after coming to Canada as soon as he could after 
the war. I guess that makes him a good Nazi.

Let's work on tolerance and understanding instead of hate, whatever 
the political, PC or social context. Drumming up additional hatred or 
old hatred is despicable and beneath what all of us really feel and 
long for.

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