RE: [Leica] Re: Leni Riefenstahl exhibit in New York

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Not too delicate at all...In fact, I have posted this previously on the LUG,
and am totally open about it. Go to the Newsday site, and look under
Pulitzers.
http://www.newsday.com/about/ny-aboutpulitzer.story?coll=ny%2Dabout%2Dutilit
y
You will find the following:

General Local Reporting
1984 Baby Doe Case
Newsday Team: Lead
Reporters B.D. Colen, Kathy Kerr

This is one of those truly sad corporate political stories:

When Newsday sent in its entry in the General Local reporting category for
the 1984 Pulitzers, it sent in, as I best recall = and we are talking about
18 years ago! - four stories I wrote on the Baby Doe Case, five that
Kathleen Kerr wrote, and one which was a Sunday gang bang by a zillion local
reporters. Because the paper hadn't won a Pulitzer in about a decade, and
was desperate to be able to say that NEWSDAY had won one, the entry was sent
in for "Newsday - A Team of Reporters." And that is a VERY unusual way to
credit a Pulitzer entry.

Anyway - we won. And the morning the prizes were to be announced, someone
from Columbia called the then editor of the paper and said, "don't you want
to put the names of individuals on this?"  and he said, "No. Leave it the
way it is." So Newsday could say that "Newsday" won.

Anyway...The next day in the paper, Kerr's photo and mine were featured with
the top of the main story. We were given credit by the paper and being the
two principal reporters on the story. And, oddly enough, we always have been
given credit by the paper. And, in fact, Kerr and I were each given $1000 by
Newsday - $1000 then being the amount that accompanied the Pulitzer
certificate. ;-)

But at Columbia, if you look under either of our names - you will find
ZIPO....However, if you look under General Local Reporting, for 1984, you
will find Newsday - A Team of Reporters.

To make matters even worse, when we went to Columbia for the official
handing out of the prizes, the Boston Globe was there to pick up its prize
for something, as I recall, having to do with segregation in Boston - and
that paper had put down EVERYBODY'S name - about 15 people. In fact, they
had so many names, that the Pulitzer folks made a new rule limiting the
number of names that could go on any given prize.

So that is my Pulitzer story. Which I told on the LUG in similar form about
a year or so ago.

B. D.

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leni Riefenstahl exhibit in New York


B.D. - It's deja vu' all over again  - you and I had this retread thread all
figured out about two months ago :)

OT for a min.  I tried doing a search on the Pulitzer web site looking for
you and I got zippo.  I'd be interested to know more about your prize, what
was the topic, etc.  If you think too delicate an issue in forum email me in
private - I'm curious about the lives of many of our famous /infamous
LUGgers.

ernie

On 3/8/02 3:14 PM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Alan - You may be Jewish, but why does that give you the right to say "no
> political discussions?"
>
> I, personally, think that the Holocaust Museum should refuse any donations
> raised from the sale of Riefenstahl prints - particularly because, as you
> note, the donations are not being made by that Nazi bitch, who is
pocketing
> all her share, but rather by the gallery, which is, quite obviously,
paying
> blood money in the hopes of ducking controversy.
>
> Enjoy your prints. And when you gaze fondly upon them, think of how many
> Jews may have died in the camps as a result of Riefenstahls photographs
> helping to shore up support for the Nazi regime. ;-)
>
> B. D.
> Who would much rather own and hang a George Rodgers print of death camp
> survivors than a Leni Riefennazi print of gorgeous Aryan athletes.
>
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>
>
> The Boesky Gallery here in Chelsea New York has an exhibit of Leni
> 's work from her movie "Olympiad." It is a version of the same
> exhibit that she had in Berlin in 1998 and is the subject of her interview
> in
> the "Leica World" of February 2000. It consists of a few prints made from
> her
> copy of the actual movie (very expensive) and an extensive selection of
> tests
> shots she took for the picture using a Leica (there are also a few shots
of
> her working taking by an anonymous photographer, including one of her with
> Leica in hand-Leica A??). As far as I know this the first time her work
has
> been for sale in the United States and the political people out there will
> be
> happy to know that the net proceeds (by the gallery, apparently not her)
are
> being donated to the Holocaust Museum. I thought the pictures were
brilliant
> and reasonably priced considering who they are by; so I bought two myself.
> Please note I am Jewish. Please no political discussions.
>
> Alan Posklensky
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