Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jonathan, really enjoyed the double smileys.
The thing you might find interesting is that I had
just been in North Kansas City. MO and Gypsum, KS in
April and nothing happened.
Interesting that I stirred up such interest.
If one thinks that censorship/profiling can't happen
in the United States of America it can. This has been
proven throught history.
One thing you might want to think about is the Civil
Rights Era and what happened to the underclass then.
Censorship and profiling were the norm. I have heard
many stories about what went on in the south
especially in Mississippi during that era.
Peace and Harmony, E.J. Schlup
--- Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org> wrote:
> e.j. schlup wrote:
>
> >I spend a good deal of time in the Mississippi
> Delta
> >(northwest Mississippi) photographing blues
> musicians
> >and the culture that created the blues. My wife
> Diana
> >Charles is a fine art portrait artist that is doing
> an
> >ongoing project call Painted Blues which is a
> >documentation of contemporary blues performers.
> >http://www.paintedblues.com/pages/562631/index.htm
> >
> >
> ..
>
> >All the time I have spent in Mississippi I have
> never
> >been stopped for photographing anything, period. I
> >have photographed heavily down there.
> >
>
> Well you see the problem you had in Kansas is not so
> unexpected when you
> look at in this way:
>
> People in Mississippi realize that blues music and
> blues musicians are
> inherently interesting. Consequently it is not so
> surprising that a
> photographer would be interested in photographing
> the place.
>
> The fact that you roused such suspicion in Kansas
> may be because people
> in Kansas don't consider their surroundings
> particularly interesting,
> consequently there wouldn't be any *good* reason for
> people to
> photograph them.
>
> :-))
>
> :-))
>
> Jonathan
> (note the doubled doubled smileys for anyone apt to
> take this post too
> seriously).
>
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