Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re Riefenstahl
From: kitmc at vuelux.com (Kit McChesney | Vuelux)
Date: Mon Aug 23 15:57:20 2004

Watch out! Slobo doesn't like Susan! :)

Kit
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[mailto:lug-bounces+kitmc=vuelux.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Matthew
Powell
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 3:47 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re Riefenstahl

> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 15:00, Ian Watts wrote:
>> Incidentally, I'm with Nathan on the Riefenstahl question. It's  
>> impossible
>> to view her work in isolation from her enthusiasm for the Nazi  
>> regime. (Even
>> her much later Nuba stuff has a strong whiff of fascism about it to  
>> me.)
>>
>> Ian Watts.

To bring up another popular name on the LUG, Susan Sontag on this:
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/33dTexts/ 
SontagFascinFascism75.htm

MP

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