[Leica] the beautiful faces...

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On Dec 10, 2010, at 4:59 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> 
wrote:

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> Mark Rabiner Offered:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] the beautiful faces...
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>> I just hope to hell when I'm 90 and have dementia people are not taking
>> pictures of me and posting them on the internet and referring to me as
>> "adorable" and "beautiful".
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> Aw com'n Mark yer a beautiful guy! :-) I feel you're being absolutely 
> mistaken. It's an incredibly beautiful series of humanity! None are 
> depressing, none look disfigured and drooling or any other negative 
> description people use & think when describing the unfortunates suffering 
> from this horrible debilitating disease.
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> As horrible as this disease is, Steve is showing the world there is a very 
> beautiful side to all this. The humour in many cases, the tenderness and 
> caring. The love between two partners in their olden years and despite the 
> disease, they still show their love for each other! It's one of the most 
> beautiful emotionally driven "nice things" I've seen in many years. WHY?
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> Well I'm sick and tired of all the usual war crap, hunger in Africa and 
> AIDS, no water in other parts of the world, plant warming and "what are we 
> going to do with the Polar Bears"! My God everything about misery the 
> world over. Quite frankly it's all becoming a great big horrid pain in the 
> ass day after day! The thing most people miss is.... "all this crap 
> garbage stuff is so easy to shoot it's like shooting fish in a barrel! " 
> Hell you just have to be there, close yer eyes point camera with auto 
> everything and squeeze shutter button turn 360 degrees and go home with 
> all the misery you want in one burst!
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> Steve's photo essay, documentary, photo project whatever one wishes to 
> call it? I truly believe it beats the hell out of the usual Afghanistan, 
> Iraq, squalors of Africa, Haiti and all those other things so easy to 
> shoot! Steve's without question is one of those beautiful touching human 
> subjects filled with hope, beauty and love one unto another!


thank you Ted,


Steve



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> Please Mark have another thought because I know you can't be serious. 
> Besides? If you were suffering from this bloody horrid disease and someone 
> was taking your photograph?
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> You probably wouldn't realize it was happening. :-)
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> cheers,
> yer old buddy,
> ted
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