Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doesn't "color blindness" mean not seeing color? He'd have to see it so as to avoid people of color .... if that's what his intention was and for whatever reason. OTOH, to make a case for his being racist or prejudiced, wouldn't we also have to make the case that a theme in his work was to observe or recommend that white culture is superior? Since this is very clearly not the case, I suggest that this discussion is played out. -Lew Schwartz On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote: > Now we are just splitting hair - since I did not "accuse" him of being a > racist, but color blindness, your statement that you don't think he's a > racist is once again neither here or there. > > But this is fine. We have lots of fine gentle-people on this list. If my > diatribe causes some thinking, that's great. If not, then it's just the > DELETE button exercise - sorry about that. > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > > > > "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote > > > > No one has actually said, gee, no, Winogrand does not have a case of > color > >> blindness, you are just making a mountain out of molehill. I'd accept > >> that, > >> but no, we have Mr. Rabiner accusing me, and Douglas and you jumping on > > > >> the bandwagon.... > >> > > > > Richard, from my place on the bandwagon, I seem to remember posting this > > > > > > "travel, and follow it up, due to my wife's illness. Anyway, in all that > > time, I never thought of Winogrand as racist, and, looking at the > selection > > of images I downloaded for my talk, there seems no evidence for it." > > > > That translated from the Irish means "Gee, No." > > > > Douglas > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug< > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for more information > > > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >