Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] The REAL BD Colen versus...
From: "Mitch Zeissler" <zeissler@directvinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 04:27:00 -0400

Marc...

I'm with you on this one, though I wonder if there is a real BD vs. one we
always see.

/Mitch
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Mitch Zeissler
 E-mail: zeissler@directvinternet.com

> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:27:16 -0400
> From: Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net>
> Subject: [Leica] The REAL BD Colen versus the TIRESOME BD Colen
>
> And you do?  BD, all you ever accomplish is to stir fights and arguments
> over peripheral issues and trumpet your own Hegelian theosophy.  Your few
> forays into photographic criticism have revealed your taste to be, well,
> boring, but, then, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so I generally
> refrain from criticizing pictures another finds worthy of posting, and I,
> similarly, do not post my own -- folks who wish to see my photography may
> visit my office, but the pictures posted there are ones which
> please me, so commentary is not welcome.
>
> But, in your case, you often give criticism but, bluntly, you are relying
> on that Pulitzer you were a part-winner of some twenty years back to give
> you a credibility you lack.
>
> Lighten up, and go with the flow, brother.  We all love you for who you
> are.  The posturing is more than a bit absurd.  In other words, quit
> playing to a New York-Boston audience.  We are worldwide venue who judge
> you by standards differently than apply in those benighted regions.
>
> Marc


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