Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And sex, and marriage, and sorrow, spirituality, joy, anger, work, play, sweat, death. It was an exhibit of its optimistic time shortly after WWII. There was a lot of that going around at the time. But there was a lot of value to that exhibit as well. The message might have been hyperbolic, but it wasn't without it's merits. Ansel Adams was pissed off because the trivialized one of his photos in advertising the exhibit. It is the photo of the massive boulders near the Manzanar Internment Camp in Eastern California when they kept Japanese citizens during the War. They put a little kid in front of a massive copy of the photo with his arms outstretched pretty much matching the width of one of the boulders. Totally cheesy, and you just don't do that to an "artist." ;-) On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 9/5/03 2:42:39 PM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > > << For that matter, the Family of Man was one of the great, schmaltzy, > feel-good photo propaganda efforts of all time---we're all the same; we > vote in America, they vote in Stalin and Khrushchev's Russia; blah, > blah, blah. ;-) >> > > I think one of the major themes in FOM was the universality of family > and > children. > > br > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > Eric Carlsbad, CA Associate not with evil men, lest you increase their number. - Frank Herbert - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html