Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Much as it sets me twitching to come to Allen's defense...What is truly "very wrong," and "very sad thinking" is the idea that it "pushes (someone's) personal tolerance level" to see ideas expressed with which they disagree. I would suggest, Gilbert, that what you are doing is helping Allen prove his point. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of J. Gilbert Plantinga Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 8:35 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Alan's attack on PJ (was: Millimeters and Milliseconds) This is so very wrong. Very sad thinking, and pushing my personal tolerance limit. Gilbert On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 08:31 PM, Allan Wafkowski wrote: > Peter, it's much more simple. Newspaper photography doesn't require > finesse. It just requires pictures. I've seen so many pictures of kids > with bloated bellies and flies, I forget who shot what, and why. I no > longer care. Newspaper photography has upgraded itself into > photojournalism, and along with the name change came a new-found worth. > They now think of themselves as changing the world through their > images. Two problems with that thought are: 1) Photojournalism has > changed almost nothing. (2 Photojournalists are just as apt to be > jackasses as bright, open human beings. What photojournalism has going > for it is that it has become a sacred cow. > > One would be hard pressed to find empirical proof that photojournalism > has had any profound effect on the world. One can find ample proof that > art has profoundly changed the world. One need only look to the > 1960s-1970s. The music, art, and literature played a profound role in > changing American and European culture. It wasn't politics, and it > wasn't newspaper photography. Five years of Disco changed the world > more than 90 years of photojournalism. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html