Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted - do what I did with my copy of "PhotoBabe" which I couldn't stomach - some one on the list wanted to read it and I was happy to pay the $1.50 to ship it to him simply to get rid of it out of my library! If you wanna send me your Sontag book I would be happy to receive it - all this talk has me curious but being a cheapskate I don't want to buy a book which I am likely to hate. Think about it. ernie On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Luc Bourgeois wrote: > I've read Sontag's essay on photography twice, and enjoyed even more > the second time. > > But, I'm not interested in arguing this. It's simply the way I feel, > and I thought I'd share that with the list, especially in the view of > her comments towards Arbus' work. > > Ted, do you often comment on books you were unable to read? It's not > very credible criticism. > > Finally, please respect other's right to free thought and opinion on > this list. If you do not agree, please use a bit more tactfulness, if > you can. > > Thanks > > Luc > > On Mercredi, septembre 3, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Ted Grant wrote: > >>> On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 07:34 PM, Luc Bourgeois wrote: >>> >>>> In her wonderful and groundbreaking essay, 'On Photography', Susan >>>> Sontag<<< >> >> Eric Welch coughed up in retaliation: ;-) >>> Choke, gag, sputter!! >>> >>> You lost me on that one. Susan Sontag is a hack writer always trying >>> to stir things up on subjects she has no business talking about.<<< >> >> Yeah Eric I'd like to offer my coughs and splutters to yours! >> >> She's one of those left brain, right brain, no brain, word types who >> is >> completely meaningless to those who actually spend more time taking >> pictures, than blathering about taking pictures. >> >> And for anyone to think what she writes about photography is going to >> make a >> major smashing good difference to their pictures and that her " >> wonderful >> and groundbreaking essay, 'On Photography" is something special, they >> might >> as well get a pixel pencil and draw on rocks! >> >> When this person and topic came up a few years ago on the LUG I >> thought, >> "Well OK buy the book and see what it's all about before you shoot her >> down." I did start to read, unfortunately I had to stop because my >> head got >> so sore from banging it against the wall due to her BS and driveling >> crap >> she was espousing, I couldn't take it any longer. >> >> And the book sits in my photo collection un-read! And will stay that >> way as >> I can throw up just so much. ;-) >> >>>> her wonderful and groundbreaking essay, 'On Photography',<<< >> >> Hog wash, it's the kind of BS that would turn a real photographer >> into a >> groundhog! >> ted >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html