Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 1/10/02 at 11:14 AM, tim@KairosPhoto.com (Tim Atherton) thoughtfully wrote: > It is interesting how many of the big industrialists and business people who > were closely identified with the Nazi Party and who kept the Nazi war > machine and coffers afloat, were allowed to be "rehabilitated" after a short > while following and continue doing what they always did. Many a lot older > and more mature at the time of their "misguided association" with Hitler et > al. Whereas Riefenstahl has never been allowed to do this. > > Why is this so? I wonder if it isn't connected with her role in pursuading other to accept and the glorification of the Nazi movement. Many would see that as a betrayal at least of "art" if not the human race. It's an easy place to afix anger as well, and not without reason. I keep trying to tell myself that a photo has its own context - that it stands by itself - but these works are associated with great evil and it's virtually impossible to set aside that context. Future generations may find it easier to do and so a body of work will be rediscovered and apppreciated. Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html