Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: >This is an issue I've had since the 70's with the academic and art >world, with their bounders constantly straying into photography's arena. >I don't take well to their effrontery and verbal vomiteria. >As far as Sontag saying anything meaningful about the craft, history can >decide that. I don't see her as anything more than a tabloid writer, >i.e. magazine, etc., masquerading as a thinker and intellectual. But >then that is the bane within our period of modernity. With mass >communication, comes the petty intellectual, not too dissimilar from its >counterpart in the petty bourgeoisie from an earlier era. >Slobodan Dimitrov But last time I looked, her partner was a pretty good photographer :-) Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html