Subject: Re: [Leica] was: did I miss a fight? NOW snapshots andcriticism

[pjleeson at mchsi.com (Philip Leeson)]

jeez,
I hope this ends soon
I'm getting uncomfortable...
Phil


On Jun 29, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Chandos Michael Brown wrote:

>
> 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
>
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