Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow! I think we read different reviews. I went back and read it again and nowhere does Reitman mention Kogan giving it all up to become a mother. I didn't get the feminist angle at all - just that Kogan had betrayed the photojournalists' code (male included) by naming names. Amazing how different we read things - Venus and Mars! Tina At 02:19 PM 2/1/01 -0800, you wrote: >I read Reitman's review on Salon. At the risk of sounding >unreconstructed, it came across to me as a traditional feminist rant. It >was more a commentary on how hard Reitman had found journalism to be for a >woman, and how much the sisterhood needed to stick together. Kogan's big >failing in Reitman's eyes seemed to be betraying the sisterhood by getting >out of field photojournalism after four years, going into TV, then giving >it all up to become a *gasp* mother. Reitman spent a lot more >column-inches on her experiences in journalism than she did dismissing >Kogan's. IMO Reitman's politics prevented her from being even remotely >objective about Kogan's book. This was not a book review, it was a polemic. > >It made me want to read "Shutterbabe" more than ever. > >Paul Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com