[Leica] Winogrand exhibit

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

Why the FUCK is the word racist being thrown around when I did not use that
word?

I am done.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doesn't "color blindness" mean not seeing color? He'd have to see it so as
> to avoid people of color .... if that's what his intention was and for
> whatever reason. OTOH, to make a case for his being racist or prejudiced,
> wouldn't we also have to make the case that a theme in his work was to
> observe or recommend that white culture is superior? Since this is very
> clearly not the case, I suggest that this discussion is played out.
>
> -Lew Schwartz
>
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Now we are just splitting hair - since I did not "accuse" him of being a
> > racist, but color blindness, your statement that you don't think he's a
> > racist is once again neither here or there.
> >
> > But this is fine. We have lots of fine gentle-people on this list. If my
> > diatribe causes some thinking, that's great. If not, then it's just the
> > DELETE button exercise - sorry about that.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote
> > >
> > >  No one has actually said, gee, no, Winogrand does not have a case of
> > color
> > >> blindness, you are just making a mountain out of molehill. I'd accept
> > >> that,
> > >> but no, we have Mr. Rabiner accusing me, and Douglas and you jumping
> on
> > >
> > >> the bandwagon....
> > >>
> > >
> > > Richard, from my place on the bandwagon, I seem to remember posting
> this
> > >
> > >
> > > "travel, and follow it up, due to my wife's illness. Anyway, in all
> that
> > > time, I never thought of Winogrand as racist, and, looking at the
> > selection
> > > of images I downloaded for my talk, there seems no evidence for it."
> > >
> > > That translated from the Irish means "Gee, No."
> > >
> > > Douglas
> > >
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