Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/02
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> The problem is that it is very misleading to suggest that some of these
> things are universal...voting is just one example of things that may look
> universal but are not...
Maybe you are right. But still FoM did one good thing - showed people
at both sides of Iron Curtain that we are in some respect the same :)
It is childisch and - as i wrote - idealistic, but indeed the effect
it had on typical man from the crowd was good and influence huge.
Even on _this_ side of Iron Curtain - no exhibition of that times
was a source of so many articles, discussions and opinions.
Even if FoM was a greatest lie of all times - and child in me wants
to believe it wasn't.
> I hate to say it, but childhood is another....
To some extent and mainly in materialistic part of it. On our part
of Iron Curtain we splashed water in the rain, just like you were
on yours :) I had toys, like you. Maybe not as colourful-
but mine were made from wood, and your from plastic. Mine were better :)
Still, children are slaves in some parts of the world, working in big
manufactures for pennies. And lot of photographic work was, is and
should be performed to show this to the world. Even if photojournalism
is dying or appears to be so. But FoM had some clear goal - to
make people from many parts of the world _believe_ that they
are similar to each other and make one family. And, in my humble
opinion, achieved this. Damn! When I was in school, every library
had at least one FoM book. Not because of propaganda or wierchuschka's
ukaz - but because teachers were smuggling those books here,
in 'pocket' editions. :)
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