Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1 cheers Lluis El 26/03/2011, a las 0:05, Tina Manley escribi?: > Howard, > > Your photos are fantastic and deserve to be preserved somewhere. > They are > part of history. I'm sure agencies would be interested. Thanks for > posting > them. I'm looking forward to seeing more. > > Tina > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:18 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> > wrote: > >> >> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:49:33 -0700 >>> From: Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] China 1976 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Message-ID: <03B0A2D5-2D6B-4365-857E-9281350862EA at mac.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII >>> >>> Howard, >>> >>> We you in a position to photograph ordinary life at all or was that >>> proscribed? >>> >> >> Foreigners were an oddity wherever we went. And so we were >> followed. My >> home telephone line was tapped. Sometimes you could hear them >> rewinding the >> tape when you picked up the receiver. Chinese people would side up >> to you >> and start a conversation and as soon as they saw the "gong >> an" (public >> security) following they would turn away. Pictures were easier when >> you were >> photographing children and their families. Not an easy time for us >> - or the >> Chinese people. >> >>> >>> My nephew was married in China last summer. My wife and many of >>> her family >>> members travelled there, stayed in non-Western hotels, and had a >>> wonderful >>> experience. I'd love to compare images from the 70s with the >>> images she made >>> in 2010. What a revolution in 40 years. Probably not the one Mao >>> had in >>> mind. Or maybe yes? >>> >> >> If Mao were alive today and still in charge I am certain he would be >> appalled and try to start another cultural revolution to turn the >> people >> away from the capitalist road. >> China owes a great debt to Deng Xiao Ping who cast aside Maoist >> orthodoxy >> and said that it was alright to get rich, Deng was imprisoned by >> Mao's widow >> and when he came back he had her and the "Gang of Four" arrested >> and tried >> for treason. I have pictures of that period too - big character >> posters and >> demonstrations. Then the restrictions on picture taking were >> lifted. The >> Chinese authorities wanted the stories told to the outside world. >> >> >>> Adam Bridge >>> >> >> Howard >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information