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Subject: Re: [OM] The viewfinder display I'd like to see
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 12:00:35 -0500
Nice work, Andrew.  

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] The viewfinder display I'd like to see


> Bill Henson - and that's a very different matter. I'm ambivalent about  
> his work - the images are wonderful but...
> And I think that's his intention.
> Best to avoid anyone between 5-18yo these days unless you're looking  
> for trouble - and he is.
> And as for that other Oz photog, Anne Geddes - well I'm planning a  
> Geddes style shot of a newborn - in a cooking pot with a few carrots  
> and onions. That should express my opinion of her work.
> Creepy, but in a whole different sort of way. :-)
> 
> If people around here think I'm just a dirty old man shooting for  
> trashy, girly magazines, so what. They're at least partly right.
> Here's a few from today - might cheer up your weekend.
> No, not art tho' there's an art to it and no nudes but rather nice  
> anyway.
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/ellie
> (My gawd - the EXIF said I was less than two metres away for most of  
> these - no wonder I had trouble breathing!)
> 
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/04/2010, at 11:13 PM, <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not at my own computer as I write this, so I have to rely on  
>> memory
>> and can not refer to saved files, but think that the most recent
>> photographer was a very well known (in Australia) and very successful
>> photographer named Benson. The instance in question was his very  
>> tasteful
>> portrait of a nude 12-year-old girl seated on rocks at the seashore,  
>> taken
>> and displayed with the full agreement and permission of the girl  
>> concerned,
>> AND her parents.  The Prime Minister of Australia went ballistic,  
>> with his
>> words making headlines in the major newspapers. (I don't watch TV,  
>> but I
>> wouldn't be surprised if he went public there as well).
>>
>>
>> I have one female friend in NZ who has the same attitude about the  
>> very
>> successful woman photographer (again my memory fails me, as I have  
>> not seen
>> this person's work for many months) who photographs only  babies, and
>> creates beautiful calendars and other printed works. My friend would  
>> have
>> this photographer hung, drawn, and quartered, for her "abuse of  
>> children in
>> a manner akin to pornography and without their permission".
> 
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