Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I fail to understand what this has to do with gender. You could make exactly the same comment about Ted Grant, Jim Brick or any number of other male photographers on this list. Incidentally, there is nothing wrong with treating your Leicas as tools but also admiring their design and other physical attributes. They are a superb example of industrial design, an art form of our time and just as valid as other art forms. Nathan Joe Codispoti wrote: > There is something else that I take for granted about Tina. As a female, I > am sure that she treats her Leicas as tools and not as "objects d'art". I am > sure she has chosen her tools for their quality and reliability and not > because of status or the red dot. > The men among us who do not need to make a living with our Leicas, see the > marque differently from women. - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman