Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Pictures and Privacy/Film Industry/Susan Sontag, too!
From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:31:51 -0500
References: <NDEIJCBGJPIEPDFEENCMAEPNCIAA.kitmc@acmefoto.com>

  Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:

>This is an issue I've had since the 70's with the academic and art
>world, with their bounders constantly straying into photography's arena.
>I don't take well to their effrontery and verbal vomiteria.
>As far as Sontag saying anything meaningful about the craft, history can
>decide that. I don't see her as anything more than a tabloid writer,
>i.e. magazine, etc., masquerading as a thinker and intellectual. But
>then that is the bane within our period of modernity. With mass
>communication, comes the petty intellectual, not too dissimilar from its
>counterpart in the petty bourgeoisie from an earlier era.
>Slobodan Dimitrov

But last time I looked, her partner was a pretty good photographer :-)

Rolfe

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