Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner Offered: Subject: Re: [Leica] the beautiful faces... >I just hope to hell when I'm 90 and have dementia people are not taking > pictures of me and posting them on the internet and referring to me as > "adorable" and "beautiful". Aw com'n Mark yer a beautiful guy! :-) I feel you're being absolutely mistaken. It's an incredibly beautiful series of humanity! None are depressing, none look disfigured and drooling or any other negative description people use & think when describing the unfortunates suffering from this horrible debilitating disease. As horrible as this disease is, Steve is showing the world there is a very beautiful side to all this. The humour in many cases, the tenderness and caring. The love between two partners in their olden years and despite the disease, they still show their love for each other! It's one of the most beautiful emotionally driven "nice things" I've seen in many years. WHY? Well I'm sick and tired of all the usual war crap, hunger in Africa and AIDS, no water in other parts of the world, plant warming and "what are we going to do with the Polar Bears"! My God everything about misery the world over. Quite frankly it's all becoming a great big horrid pain in the ass day after day! The thing most people miss is.... "all this crap garbage stuff is so easy to shoot it's like shooting fish in a barrel! " Hell you just have to be there, close yer eyes point camera with auto everything and squeeze shutter button turn 360 degrees and go home with all the misery you want in one burst! Steve's photo essay, documentary, photo project whatever one wishes to call it? I truly believe it beats the hell out of the usual Afghanistan, Iraq, squalors of Africa, Haiti and all those other things so easy to shoot! Steve's without question is one of those beautiful touching human subjects filled with hope, beauty and love one unto another! Please Mark have another thought because I know you can't be serious. Besides? If you were suffering from this bloody horrid disease and someone was taking your photograph? You probably wouldn't realize it was happening. :-) cheers, yer old buddy, ted