Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am not a fan of Susan Sontag, find her writing turgid and pedantic, and believe that it is quite obvious from that writing that she is not a photographer in any vaguely serious sense of the term. HOWEVER...She is clearly extremely bright, and photographer or not, does bury more than a few ponies deep in the horseshit - making picking up the shovel well worth the effort.;-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Eric Welch Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:16 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] New photos/Arbus/Sontag But you better be a photographer if you're going to tell other photographers that their approach to their profession is violent, and unacceptable. On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 08:33 PM, Tim Atherton wrote: > You don't need to be a photographer to view, talk about and understand > photographs any more than you need to be a painter to be allowed to > look at and talk about what you think or feel of a Picasso or Van > Gough. Eric Carlsbad, CA 'Never ask a man what computer he uses. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If it's not, why embarrass him?'" - Tom Clancey - -- 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