Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] modern photoreportage?
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri Jan 11 13:23:20 2008
References: <C3AD042E.26665%bd@bdcolenphoto.com> <115B7E18-8178-4366-948F-7C8490DE2960@cox.net> <44F8B817-B611-4A51-A2F5-642129153266@mac.com> <33E2BDFB-792D-40D3-A136-E8BE8BAE7C26@cox.net> <BC54BD4C-182D-451A-9067-F4CF38F79DA8@mac.com>

On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Lottermoser George wrote:

> While I understand your points Steve; I hold the opinion that drugs  
> from Afganistan (and elsewhere), as well as their effects on the  
> weak among us, along with what we do or don't do about these  
> circumstances, certainly have news value. Further, we "well know"  
> just about everything presented in photographs published in news  
> sources as well as here.

seems just too much credit is given here to the  "drugs from  
Afganistan"...

my extreme sympathy goes to fellow human beings even if they happen to  
be "crashpad junkies"...

but I keep in mind, these unfortunates are spending a fortune killing  
themselves and their babies...

drug overdoses,  HIV, heart rending complications occurring all the  
time...I know...

what makes it  "newsworthy"... ?  Pinch me...is this the sixties again?

In a world so full of vast as well as innocent misery, surely there  
are other stories to tell....

and please don't tell me... "the thing that is important is that you  
can sell it to someone..."

Steve






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> On Jan 11, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>> The content is not new, or newsworthy,  or even revealing of  
>> anything we don't well know...
>
> Fond regards,
> George
> george@imagist.com
> www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07
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