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Subject: [Leica] No photography in Museum
From: rclark01 at comcast.net (Robert Clark)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:26:13 -0500
References: <C76A5812.5B936%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Keeping pushing those people...they'll become unstuck...

Robert Clark
Lancaster, PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] No photography in Museum


>>
>
> I wonder how much those museum visitors without cameras are permitted to
>> stand in front of paintings or scupltures? Perhaps having a camera 
>> doesn't
>> always mean creating a back-up in traffic flow. This past summer in the
>> Vatican Museum, I had a camera and took many pictures but my walk through 
>> the
>> museum was periodically impeded by those just standing and looking - 
>> without
>> cameras.
>
>
>
> That's an insult to the art don't those people know they're supposed to 
> keep
> moving at a steady pace!!?!?
> I was just reading Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
> by Linda Gordon
> (here she is using a Graflex on top of a car
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Lange_car.jpg  )
>
> She was talking about the Family of Man exhibit which Lange had a hand in
> with Steichen.
> There was a shot of a lynching. They took it out because of the bottleneck
> it made in crowd control. The director of the show. Not Steichen or Lange 
> of
> coarse.
>
> Gotta keep em moving!
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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