Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I raised the issue of a cigarette used in a portrait. In this case a self portrait. Ones image and it's effect on other people. In fashion and portraiture not log ago it was common. A favorite prop. Harry is not Harry with out his cigarette. Now almost unheard of. Same with films. When you see it you go: "Hey look at the cigarette!". Modern WWII PC films are especially funny. You see five people all talking no one with a cigarette and it's 1944. No way. They'd ALL have a cigarette. But now they're all dead. They may have dodged bullets with amazing luck. But not cancer. The glamorous fashion models from those previous decades have all gotten cervical or breast cancer. No we don't want those young people to smoke. We don't want to make cool images of people smoking. That's my opinion. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html