Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --- Austin Franklin <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > ...I hate to say this because it seems to be > terrible what happened to > > George, but anybody dumb enough to take a picture > of kids that they do not > > know, is out of touch with our world today. > > Steve, > > That's horrible. I take pictures of children all > the time. I am a father > of young children, and I always carry a camera, and > I'm always snapping > pictures of kids...mine and others. If they are in > public, I have every > right in the world to do so, and I will. It's NOT > dumb. The belief that it > is dumb is what is DUMB. > > Austin > I must emphatically second this post! Picture the original Family of Man (or FOM2 for that matter) without candid photos of children or the work of Bresson and thousands of other photographers. Just because the security guards of the world would take away our freedoms in a heartbeat does not mean we should roll over and go away or convince ourselves that we were "dumb enough" to practice our art. Clif Wright ===== http://www.pbase.com/clifwright __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html