Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI 20 February 2002 The question about whether or not a photographer should limit his perspective to his own back yard brings to mind the words of writer Claude Levi-Strauss. In his "World on the Wane," he asked: "Did not my mistake, and that of my profession, lie in the belief that men are not always men? That some are more deserving of our interest and our attention because there is something astonishing to us in their manners, or in the colour of their skin? No sooner are such people known or guessed at, than their strangeness drops away, and one might as well have stayed in one's own village." But Margaret Atwood, in "Bodily Harm," was much more succinct: "Why don't the white guys look for the heart of darkness in their own bathrooms?" Still--cannot it be argued that when photographers are in a place that is new and strong and strange, they are more alert--and therefore see photographs they might otherwise miss in more familiar settings? -- Bill Clough __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html