Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] Beware HCB Wannabes
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:07:22 -0400

> Sonny -- look at the shots: he's not making people uncomfortable and then
> shooting them; he's making other people uncomfortable by being there taking
> pictures at all. The people he's shooting look all kinds of ways but none 
> is
> snarling at the camera in the manner of JD Salinger the day the boys from
> the NY Post jumped out in front of him from their van in Hanover or 
> whatever
> the NH town was.  So I'm talking about the big "them", the burghers and
> merchants and police; the "citizens" as William Burroughs put it. What I 
> was
> essentially saying was: Since they're after him now, I'm on his side and 
> I'm
> sure he's on the right track. It's a romantic kneejerk bohemianism in many
> ways but, in this age of zero counterculture, it beats all the alternative
> points of view I can see to choose from.

I'm in.



[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner





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