Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Political Correctness
From: Mike Quinn <mlquinn@san.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:34:51 -0700

Tina,

It's precisely because you come from a different culture that your photos
are important. Your distance from their culture allows you to see things
that they would miss. When you show your photos to us, we understand them
because we share a (somewhat) common culture.

If your task were to explain the U.S. to people from the third world, you'd
need to look at our culture through their eyes. To explain the third world
to us, your eyes work very well indeed.

Mike Quinn

Tina Manley wrote:

> What do you think about political correctness?  Gallery owners and
> publishers who reviewed our work seemed to think it is an important issue,
> but it honestly never occurred to me.