Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:43 PM 9/20/2006, you wrote: Tina, I attended an opening at a gallery not long ago and, in >addition to painting, sculpture, pottery, etc., there were also a >number of photographs displayed. One of them was of a young girl, >perhaps 5 or 6, whose facial expression, while not manipulated like >Greenberg's stuff, was clearly born of distress. Something had to >have been done, or said, that caused her face to screw up as if she >were ready to bawl her eyes out. > >I don't get it. > >Ken Well, I did post this photo of a boy in Honduras who was crying because he was seeing a doctor for the first time: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/63774489 But I didn't make him cry! I gave him a lollipop to stop crying and even got him to grin when I gave him a matchbox car after the doctor had seen him. I can understand trying to stop kids from crying but I'll never understand making them cry on purpose for some idea of art. I don't get it either. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com