[Leica] my flag project is online/ Karen Schreiber

[bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)]

More to the point - If we live in America, and are Americans, why do we have
to fly flags or plaster flag stickers on our cars to tell people that we're
Americans? The flag has, unfortunately, become a political symbol.


On 9/4/05 1:56 AM, "karen schreiber" <k_schreiber_98@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> 
>  
> My work is being shown "world wide", at
> www.Silvereye.org. Click on exhibitions,then go to
> member's gallery online. I am one of three
> photographers showing on the Member's Gallery
> Online(MGO) from September 1- November 30, 2006.
>  
> The webmaster, Paul g Wiegman states The images "are
> particularly timely. Once again we are facing an event
> that tugs at the emotional, moral, and
> intellectual filaments of the national community.  We
> all have to ask just who the depiction of the flag is
> for, and what purpose the individual has in
> displaying this powerful symbol.
>  
> It's curious to me that more flags have not been
> raised in the wake of  Katrina, but I suppose people
> don't see a natural disaster with the loss of
> life a strike by something foreign.  We accept
> hurricanes as American and  "one of us".
>  
>  Paul g Wiegman
>  
> 
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