Re: [Leica] Re: critique pictures, not people

[Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>]

There's an easy test: are you critiquing the book or the writer, the
photograph or the photographer, the painting or the painter?

My favorite typeface designer, Eric Gill, is often criticized for
having lived an immoral life. So much so that there was an uproar in
his native England about whether it was right to set the prayer book in
Gill Sans. I find myself unable to care about his personal life when I
set something in Perpetua or Golden Cockerel. 

Saying "Henry, your pictures stink" is a fine thing to do. Even if you
can't say what stinks about them. Saying "Henry, you are the kind of
person who makes stinky pictures" seems to be across the line.