Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Curious. I teach at William and Mary and certainly don?t recall saying anything about my academic background on the LUG. I also attended Western New Mexico University, the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy, and the University of New Mexico--just to set the record straight. But I guess this don't play quite as well to your various resentments, at least as I've heard about them off-list from many other Luggers. What you don?t get is that I don't give a rat's ass about you personally, or, rather, I assume that you're an OK guy. You'll recall that I sent you and your wife a check after the Katrina disaster and asked you to do good things with it (as, I'm sure, did most of the LUG), and I'm confident that you did. It ain't my fault that you take critical comments about your photographs as a personal attack. Small people generally do. My outbox shows that I sent you an offlist condolence in response to your father's death, but, what the hell, all memory is fallible. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+chandos=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+chandos=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of SonC@aol.com Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:53 PM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: Subject: Re: [Leica] was: did I miss a fight? NOW snapshots andcriticism In a message dated 6/29/2006 9:24:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time, vondauster@earthlink.net writes: On Jun 29, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Chandos Michael Brown wrote: > Sonny, > > That you're under stress doesn't seem to limit *your* comments, and > it's> craven to hide behind it now. I'm not hiding behind anything. I was just wondering why you jump my ass when you read I am having problems like parents passing away, or a wife in a crisis after surgery. > > You claim to be a "documentary" photographer. I merely asked what > you think your documenting and why. (It is you're not your, Mr. Harvard guy.) I am documenting what I see. I am not claiming art. I am shooting, and showing. Nothing more. > > Your links, given the volume of what you inflict on the LUG, > doesn?t answer my question. What's the matter, I don't shoot enough Negroes for you? You want down and out blackies on the porch? Or would you like me to go out and shoot the crack salesmen who are coming here to ruin lives in our community? Sorry, I did that already. When I tired of shooting it, I went to the trenches for three years to work at the Food Bank, then at the United Way for a year, until I realized that the government was engineering poverty. You do a lot of assuming, but you don't know me, and you can't judge me from half-assedly looking at my pictures. About all I remember about your work anymore is a bunch of drunks in a barroom, and one portrait of a breath-taking woman. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information