[Leica] Remembering the Reagan years

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At 07:26 PM 6/9/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>.Of course I also couldn't help thinking as I saw Nancy
>tentatively touch the casket as it made a turn past her, 'hope someone
>got THAT shot.' :-)

I thought I saw Sal Di Marco ducking as the cameras went by.  Were you 
there, Sal?  It is certainly a moving ceremony.  Nancy was a very 
supportive and loyal wife.  The tentative touch of the casket was a 
decisive moment, unplanned but very, very moving.  I wish I had been there, 
but it was almost enough to see it on TV.  We don't see enough moments of 
true emotion these days and the difference between those and politically 
planned "photo ops" and "sound bites" is very obvious.  I wonder sometimes 
about our responsibility as photographers to the cynical view that the 
media portrays of American life.  Perhaps all photographers and reporters 
should live for a few years under a dictatorship to have a basis for 
comparison. The current trends are very, very scary.  We should all go to 
NYC and photograph in the subways at every possible opportunity.

Tina


Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com