Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah well you don't know my mother. She won't go to PG-13 movies. If I were to take her to such an exhibit, that would be the end of Christmas cookies for me! On Dec 13, 2003, at 10:41 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > As for the "Mom test"--I did take my Mom to a Mapplethorpe exhibit in > Denmark > several years ago. Don't assume that just because your mother is older > than you, > she is less open-minded. My Mom appreciated the technical/artistic > quality of the > images, although she was put off by the homo-erotic contect, which is > more or less > my own reaction to Mapplethorpe's work. Eric Carlsbad, CA "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man [person] in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation." - --Herbert Spencer - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html