Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/15
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Yea, sure there is no official way, i.e., via fiat, yet some photos just can't be published somehow, at least usually no more then once. The severed hand in the Post after 9/11, the guy falling from the towers, all quickly removed from mass public consumption. Please, lets be real here.
Chris Saganich
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Eric Welch
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 4:54 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT- War Photography
Sam,
You would be correct. There is no way to ban a photo in the U.S. short
of it being child pornography.
On Dec 14, 2003, at 9:50 AM, sam wrote:
> Chris, I beleive you misspoke when you said the photo had been banned
> in the US.
>
> Sam S
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> Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics wrote:
>>> From the first Iraq campaign I never forgot the photo of the
>>> soldiers frozen and burnt in place
> trying to escape from his armored vehicle. This photo was banned in
> the US, but a similar one
> has reappeared in Aperture this quarter. I was at once shocked that a
> weapon we have could have
> such an effect, I discovered that the culprit more then likely was the
> use of depleted uranium tipped shells.
>> Chris Saganich
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Eric
Calsbad, CA
"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us,
'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" - Dostoevsky
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