Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ted Grant wrote: bdcolen offered: > I may come across at times as a mean, demented s.o.b, but no way would I > EVER do to people what she did to her victims, uh, subjects.:-) > > B. D. > Not A Diane Arbus Fan<<<< Hi B.D., Well you can chalk me up big time as another non-admirer of her degrading pictures of unfortunate human beings. Regardless what some people think are works of art!:-( I've seen her as an opportunist taking advantage of human beings who were already being exploited by others and all she did was add to the exploitation. Besides all she did was use the medium of photography to capture the image of these unfortunate souls and it didn't take any great photographic eye or skill to shoot what she did. Like stand there ... SNAP... next! Not much talent required to do that. I had a freind once who during a discussion of Ms. Arbus expressed the opinion that she was crying with her subjects. She was pretty messed up herself. ============================================================================ Ken Firestone, W3CAT | For every problem there is one solution kenf@speakeasy.net | which is simple, neat, and wrong. ken@firestone.net | -- H. L. Mencken ============================================================================ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html