Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They have to be in place, for moral grounding. A very interesting piece of acting, in the Seventh Seal, has the knight grappling on how to untangle himself from the Devil's grip, as he's playing chess. He comes upon an insight from the knight/bishop combination. Well, in our case we use the old tried and true mendicant /knight combination. No one's fooled, except maybe for the hapless mendicant, but all play their part. S. Dimitrov > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:40:22 -0400 > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos > > Hey, Tina, there are, or were, NGO's in Iraq too. ;-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Tina Manley > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:57 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Susan Sontag on Iraq Photos > > > At 12:11 PM 5/24/2004 -0400, you wrote: >> Cover story in yesterday's NYT Magazine entitled The Photographs Are >> Us. It is much more a piece about the U.S., Iraq and torture than about > >> photography, but she makes some interesting observations about the >> photos. Similarly, Sarah Boxer had a Times column yesterday on the same > >> subject. > > I kept hoping that the photos would be revealed to be hoaxes like the > ones > of the British soldiers. I guess I have too much faith in the ultimate > humanity of most people to believe that such things actually happen. We > > need to know about it when it happens but I am so tired of hearing of > nothing but how horrible we all are. It's time for me to go to Honduras > > with a medical brigade and renew my faith in humanity. > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information