Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re : Nachtwey's Capas, >> >Salgados, Evans, etc
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:35:52 -0400

John - My precise point is that, in most book stores, the only photo books
that capture the public's interest ARE books of photos of babies with flower
petals around their necks.



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> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> CamraLuvr@aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 12:19 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re : Nachtwey's Capas, >> >Salgados, Evans, etc
>
>
> I'll say again, It's not the photographer or his intentions that I have a
> problem with. As a photographer myself, I have enjoyed these
> works immensely,
> and consider some of them to be my personal favorites.  It's the publics
> fascination with singling this sort of work out as art.  In other
> words, it's
> not so much the content, but the quantity vs. the quantity of the
> alternative(s).  How would you feel about it if the only thing
> that caught
> the public's interest (therefore the only thing available at your local
> bookstore) was photographs of babies with flower petals around
> their necks?
> But that's not really a fair comparison.  At least that is not a
> focus by the
> masses on the darker side of humanity.
> John London CamraLuvr@aol.com
>