Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >