Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wasn't accusing you of using it; I'm just pointing out that, no matter how the ideas in this thread pan out, no one will ever be able to make the case that he ( or his work ) is prejudiced against minorities. I'll also point out another peculiar thing about this thread (not attributing this to Richard, either): we're verging on the idea that an artist can be judged by what isn't in the work, very odd indeed. -Lew Schwartz On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote: > Why the FUCK is the word racist being thrown around when I did not use that > word? > > I am done. > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Doesn't "color blindness" mean not seeing color? He'd have to see it so > as > > to avoid people of color .... if that's what his intention was and for > > whatever reason. OTOH, to make a case for his being racist or prejudiced, > > wouldn't we also have to make the case that a theme in his work was to > > observe or recommend that white culture is superior? Since this is very > > clearly not the case, I suggest that this discussion is played out. > > > > -Lew Schwartz > > > > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Richard Man <richard at > > richardmanphoto.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Now we are just splitting hair - since I did not "accuse" him of being > a > > > racist, but color blindness, your statement that you don't think he's a > > > racist is once again neither here or there. > > > > > > But this is fine. We have lots of fine gentle-people on this list. If > my > > > diatribe causes some thinking, that's great. If not, then it's just the > > > DELETE button exercise - sorry about that. > > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote > > > > > > > > No one has actually said, gee, no, Winogrand does not have a case of > > > color > > > >> blindness, you are just making a mountain out of molehill. I'd > accept > > > >> that, > > > >> but no, we have Mr. Rabiner accusing me, and Douglas and you jumping > > on > > > > > > > >> the bandwagon.... > > > >> > > > > > > > > Richard, from my place on the bandwagon, I seem to remember posting > > this > > > > > > > > > > > > "travel, and follow it up, due to my wife's illness. Anyway, in all > > that > > > > time, I never thought of Winogrand as racist, and, looking at the > > > selection > > > > of images I downloaded for my talk, there seems no evidence for it." > > > > > > > > That translated from the Irish means "Gee, No." > > > > > > > > Douglas > > > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > > > Leica Users Group. > > > > See http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug< > > > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for more information > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >