Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] powerful images
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:17:54 -0500
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I hear and read this critique of her work.
Yet I don't see or feel "exploitation."
I see and feel in the photographs a sincere interest in her subjects.

These variances of perception and opinion is what keeps our cultures vibrant.

a note off the iPad, George

On Jul 13, 2014, at 2:56 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Diane Arbus' body of work looks like cold blooded
> exploitation of those on the margins of normalcy/society, who probably
> did not have the means to object to being portrayed as freaks and
> oddities.


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