Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/21

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Subject: Re: Why do we have cameras?
From: bholmes@frii.com (Ben Holmes)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:14:02 -0700 (MST)

An incisive slice of Oddmunds thoughts:

>I have abandonned my aesthetic preoccupations in order to reach a state
>of unsophistication. I think this gives the subject all its strength,
>and hopefully at the same time bring some light to contemporaries on
>tragedies taking place at their very doorsteps.
>
>I am not alone doing or having done this, I am just a part of a
>tradition.

Indeed, a tradition very important to us all. Cartier Bresson, Haas,
Seymour, Morath - all architects of the movement of photographer as witness
to injustice and suffering. All helped shape the Leica tradition. 

Lest we forget, continue Oddmund.