Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/8/05 10:43:53 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes: > I'm not comfortable with the thread about Guantanamo and the Koran. -- > Brian > ------------------------------------------------------- I reckon politics has some relevance to photojournalism. Were Capa on this list, we would hear a lot about politics I assume. However, Brian has a point about gratuitous politics. Politics without a photographic anchor. Lug is internationalist by virtue of the fact that Leica is. It's almost impossible to ignore politics as even an art photographer. However, NYC is a lot less crowded with political objects than Washington, DC. Tucked away in a corner of the OR State Supreme Court grounds in Eugene is a life size statue of Senator Wayne Morse, one of the few prominent members who voted against the Vietnam War. He wasn't a pacifist by any means, serving in FDR's administration during WW II. Well, gentlemen, it's almost impossible for me to pass Mr. Morse there without taking a shot of him with my M3 or anything else that works like a camera. Were I visiting Munich, I would be drawn to photograph the monuments to White Rose. http://www.jlrweb.com/whiterose/ Bob