Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh i hope you ARE the only person who's uncomfortable because he was making an analogy to a method of operation that is widely and generally understood and which wasn't even remotely suggesting that you actually replace your camera with a gun and start shooting people. I assume you never "shoot" your camera and that even that is too testosterone filled. Geesh - this is just sooooooooo PC. AB On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:32:35 -0500, Chandos Michael Brown <chandos@cox.net> wrote: > > Am I the only one who is uncomfortable with the photography as "sniping" > metaphor? I don't see making images as a form of violent aggression or > predation, though I have struggled with the latter sufficiently to > rethink my position on the sort of photography I did in the Green Leafe. > > I suppose that the fact we are a nation at war and that real snipers are > killing real people (on both sides) as I write this gives me pause when > I think about what I'm doing when I put eye to viewfinder, and the last > thing that I want to equate it with is the extinction of life. > > Words matter-and I find this particular way of thinking and talking > about the act of photography exceedingly distasteful. > > Small wonder so few women frequent the lug, what with all this > testosteronic posturing. > > Chandos > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >