Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Amazon has Campany's book, so that's good. I'm not going to flood the list with thank you messages, but thanks to Phil, Ken, Phillipe, Jon and others for the great pointers. Wow, I knew the LUG was good for advice on pens, scotch and where one might best stay and eat nearly anywhere in the world..... But critical theory mavens and jazz experts on the LUG??? This is truly a remarkable mailing list !!! With so much LUG wisdom, maybe we should start picking stocks collectively ;-) Scott p.s. Way OT: [AMD, NEM, XOM, and good old VFINX (market timing, bought after start of Iraq war) have done me well over the last 2-3 years, but it's looking dicey to me these days - at least if you're used to recent ~50%-class gains :-) I'm holding BRK.B, but I'd like to find other cash rich companies that tend to pick up quality assets on the cheap during a downturn.] Phil Swango wrote: > Scott wrote: > Awesome, thanks! I don't know who's cool these days, > but 20 years ago I used to read Derida, Lacan, Kristeva, > etc. for breakfast :-) > > Campany references Derrida and Lacan and includes a short essay on > photography by Derrida. But he reads much easier and sort of decodes the > pomo jargon into something reasonably transparent. The trouble with the > book is that it's very tempting to just look at the pictures/captions and > ignore the text. That's what I did for a few months after getting > it. But > the text is the jewel here, along with the multiple essays by other > authors/artists. I wish I could easily post the little essay by Allan > Sekula titled "Meditations on a Triptych," in which he specualtes on the > myriad of possible social interpretations of three "snapshots" made by > him > and presented as a triptych. Or Douglas Crimp's ideas on the > significance > of how photos are archived in a library (by subject category) as > opposed to > a museum (by artist). Anyway, hope you can find a copy to look through. > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)