Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]
At 08:33 PM 05/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Irrelevant? Sheesh. Cameras are, ultimately, irrelevant, as are cars and
>military history and most of those other things we spend a lot of time
>worrying about on the Net. But politics, while it really doesn't belong on
>the LUG, is hardly "irrelevant".
>Marc
>
Right on, Marc!
With the possible exception of photographing my wife and daughter, every
time I pick up a camera it is a political act. I became a photographer
because of politics and I photograph the things I do because of personal
political beliefs.
The simple act of documenting someone elses life is a political act because
by drawing attention to the "human condition" you, by default, make a
statement about how the human condition came into being. In veritably, the
path will lead to SOMEONE'S politics.
Life is politics, cameras are political tools, pictures are political
statements....
...now I have to dig my truck out of the 75cm of snow that we got hammered
with last night. Which is a political act because the city plows were off
road last night and failed to provide a government service!
Greg Locke E-Mail: locke@picturedesk.org
St. John's, Newfoundland http://www.straylight.ca/locke
(Newfoundlanders... a people who voted themselves out of existence)
- --------------------- PictureDesk International -------------------
Available at PRESSLINK ONLINE http://www.presslink.com