Re: animals in film

Greg Schmitz (gws1@columbia.edu)
Thu, 6 Jul 1995 13:02:09 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 6 Jul 1995, J. McArdle wrote:

> The other dilemmas associated with phtography are environmental - its
> a very dirty business - do we think enough about these things and act
> on them - ordo we hope it will all just go away. For someone like
> myself who encounters younger people with strong (uncompromised) moral
> positions all the time in a University setting this

Well maybe, but I would not be so quick to label photography when I
compare it to other things around us, automobiles and dishsoap to name
two. I suspect that photography is on par with many other art forms -
as far as the "filth" aspect goes. It would seem to me that the
manufacture of modern inks, paints, solvents etal. could hardly be
considered clean. My biggest gripe though is with the digital folks.
For long time they argued that photography was dirty and computers
were clean; a spurious argument to say the least. The semiconductor
industry is probably one of the worst in the world, not to mention the
increased use of paper and all of the obsolete computers, printers and
old hardware now beginning to clog our landfills. Digital photography
is a marketing racket but I have found few who are willing to say that
the emperor is naked; esp. in trade publications and at major
universities :*)

--greg schmitz

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