Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Somehow, now that the photographer's proclivity has been demonstrated, he's might of become a liability. But then, that's just an opinion. I might be tempted to follow up sometime down the road, let's say 6-8 months from now, and check on the photographer's status. On the other hand, one never knows if this was an oblique commentary, by European interests, on our contemporary situation. I can recount a recent incident close to me that colors my perception. Now that Impact Visuals has closed it's doors, the same agency that Bill Biggart contributed to, a number of us have kept in contact, as many of the past clients are still asking for images that we as a group specialized in. On a weekly, or bi-weekly basis, a want list would go up by email. Apparently. an individual or entity with a .gov address was also keeping track of the requests. How this was discovered was when they somehow fell out of the information loop, and starting asking about the process of being reintegrated in the listing email. As it turned out, after Impact Visuals folded, one of the former board members used a forum as a contact point. As this was public forum, why they chose this method, I have no idea, they could not refuse access. Since then, we been in contact by private email in addressing these past clients' requests. You have to bear in mind that the kind of publications and entities that asked for imagery ran all the way from the Ford Foundation, to Newsweek, and Covert Action Quarterly, etc. While some of the clients were, and are, as mainstream as they get, much of the rest were strong critiques of the past and current practices that we see in public and, needless to say, in historical life. So, just as there is an unrelenting activity at placing as much of this in public view, there is a just as unrelenting attempt to suppress it that is not time or place specific. Slobodan Dimitrov Mike Durling wrote: > I think that since the picture was taken last June it doesn't really comment > on US foreign policy, if that's what you are saying. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html