[Leica] Sontag and Benjamin

[cmbrow at wm.edu (Chandos Michael Brown)]

You know, Ted, this is just a bit too bubba to go down easily.  I'm no
great admirer of Sontag (though I'm quite certain that I've read a deal
more of her than you have), but some twenty books, and innumerable
published essays is a pretty respectable life's work, and if you can
praise Sonny Carter for selling banal photographs on the grounds that
payment alone is testament to photographic genius, then surely you're a
hypocrite by refusing to acknowledge that Sontag is fantastically
accomplished by the same measure.

Cheers,

Chandos

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted
Grant
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 7:52 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Sontag and Benjamin

Afterswift@aol.com commented:
Subject: [Leica] Sontag and Benjamin

>>> On these long, cold winter
> months in the Northern Hemisphere reading Sontag and Benjamin makes
for
> enjoyable evenings. These books are in all the libraries. They can
only 
> deepen us as
> photographers.<<<<<<<<<<

Bob,
I have no experience with reading Benjamin, he does sound interesting to

make an effort to. However, Sontag? Hell the only thing she ever did for
me 
was make me throw-up violently with her stupid writing on photography
and 
photographers.

And if she gave me anything deep about being a  photographer it's to
never 
pay attention to people of this ilk simply because they have the "right 
connections" to get published with their drivel!

And if she were the only thing to cuddle up with on a cold evening in
the 
winter months, God help us all!

Save it Bob, too many real people on the list to try and convince us she

means anything more than a pain in the ass about photography.

ted


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