Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 6, 2008, at 4:31 PM, bob palmieri wrote in part this, so I will respond: > Y'all - > Most interesting that this snap should provide a focus for > discussion of so many issues (most of them admittedly my own.) I'll > "front load" this post so if you don't feel like schlogging through > it all you can get the general idea quickly. > Steve - > > Your decision to post the caption you and your wife were imagining > for this shot - "hey Rex ...are you dead yet?" is staggeringly > insensitive. It's also, however, staggeringly close to the reason > for this photo. both my wife and I being medical people, we felt a huge lump in our throat as we discussed this and came to this caption... we were being staggeringly insensitive, but we felt that this image says something quite different from the usual caring, both verb and adjective... we apologize, but feel justified in arriving at this spectacularly unsympathetic conclusion... we each (MD and RN) have been through many harrowing medical situations, and possibly have a sixth sense, what we saw and reacted to in your image, you have described as caregiver fatigue... seemingly not caring. without being too analytic it's all there... as such it's an effective image in that it reveals a certain lack of caring...distancing...lack of human emotional interaction, imho. But, on the other hand, what I found amazingly revealing and moving in your photo Bob, the man's shoes on the floor are "backwords"... this reminded me of John F Kennedy's funeral, seeing the boots in the stirrups of the riderless horse turned backwords... such a small thing yet... in fact, after all the talk is done, maybe the right photo has won recognition for "caring"... > One of the things we see in this is a certain "caregiver fatigue" - > in fact a somewhat darker take on "caring" than one might normally > shoot for in photos for this theme. > > And in fact, when Brian announced this theme I thought to myself > "Well... why should any of us bother entering when it's clear that > Steve's gonna have this one locked up. In fact, we oughtta just > give him an honorary win based on his previously posted body of > work." (Although then we'd hafta give one to Tina, too...) So I can > see why you might be bugged to not have your name among the named. sure, I can handle that... I submitted this image... http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/paw2008/care.jpg.html a mother, and her infant on life support... I'm proud of it... thanks for not being outraged at our scandalous subtitle... Steve > Bob Palmieri > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information