From: Kate Mahoney (kateb@paradise.net.nz)
Date: 09/22/03-02:36:40 PM Z
Right on, Judy!!!!
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From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: Re: PS About Witkin Re: Diane Arbu s
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote:
> > I know it's unfashionable these days to make moral judgments, or even
to
> > insist that there may actually be such a thing as right and wrong. As
someone
> > else on the list put it, "...if there are limits, they're the limits of
what
> > the public will stomach." Well, that's exactly the point. We seem to be
able
> > to stomach just about anything these days.
> >
>
>
> Arthur, friend, to me what "the public will stomach these days," the
> self-serving lies from politicians, destruction of environment,theft of
> the government,corruption, cronyism, bait and switch rationales and
> evocations of "patriotism, the outrages in REALITY that one look at an
> actual newspaper (not the TV talking fluff persons) shows every day is so
> hideous awful incredible and FRIGHTENING that in comparison Witkin is as
> Sunnybrook Farm. In fact a refreshing honesty.
>
> Albeit such (eg Mapplethorpe, etc.) are often used by "government" as a
> distraction from their obscenities.
>
>
> J.
>
>
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