[Leica] Sontag and Benjamin

[robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)]

Ted,

Why do you make all these assumptions about me?   All I did was ask you if 
there was anything specific you disagreed with her about.  And you couldn't 
come up with a single thing.   But I don't want to read any more of your 
mindless smears, so I will end this now.

Bob


Subject: Re: [Leica] Sontag and Benjamin


> Robert Meier asked:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sontag and Benjamin
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>> Ted,
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>> You are good at ad hominem attacks (and explaining about your intestinal 
>> troubles), but is there anything specific you can say that you disagree 
>> with her about?   Anything of substance at all?<,,
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> Bob,
> I suppose I should clarify my life has always been that of a doer! "One 
> who works with their hands!" And creativity of seeing! You know one of 
> those who works for a living, rather than sitting on their ass thinking up 
> great things of total meaningless drivel that only other drivellers can 
> understand!  No offence intend!
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> Therefore not an intellectual!
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> And as far as telling you anything objectively about her and her writings 
> on photography, other than her drivel actually gave me a very large bowel 
> movement and not just the heaves, I trust  may help with my point of view 
> of this "intellectual person when it comes to photography!"
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> I do trust I have made myself clear to you! That actually this response is 
> wasting my short time of life about a non-entity person when it comes to 
> the values of photojournalistic works of many photographers.
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> Am I being objective? Not likely in your eyes, so be it,. tough titty son!
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> I bought her book "Sontag on Photography"  or whatever the tile was, as I 
> thought "great anything about leaning more on the subject "Photography." 
> It seemed a reasonable thought at the time.
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> However, as I began to read it I thought she was some kind of mentally 
> challenged person writing about a subject she didn't have a clue what 
> being a photographer and what some of us have dedicated our lives to. 
> Capturing life and the world as it is! To tell stories with our work, to 
> capture moments never to happen again. To leave a legacy of the world to 
> future generations so they'd no who and what their forefathers and Mothers 
> were and what they looked like. How we lived, worked, played and died.
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> I mean real stuff, like what real life is and was all about! Not this 
> hyperbole crap from some a disillusioned female writer! And if you don't 
> agree mon ami, so be it!
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> Actually I never finished her book and threw it away! Simply  because it 
> was nothing more than someone spouting off on a subject she had no idea 
> what the hell the "life and dedication of producing meaningful photography 
> was all about!"
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> I do hope this clarifies my feelings about her. My only sorrow is, I'd 
> loved to have gone head to head in conversation with her. And I bet... "we 
> would have had a wonderful and well meaning conversation!"  Although from 
> the way I've written, and you'll waste your time responding to, I doubt 
> you, as an intellectual, really wont understand what this means at all! 
> Therefore, good evening, Sir.
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> regards,
> ted
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