[rollei_list] Re: OT Mapplethorp (was Re: Re:)
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:03:19 -0500
Yes. Here in our uninformed and uncivilized world, we call such actions
ignorant censorship.
Eric Goldstein
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, March 07, 2010, at 06:07PM, "Marvin" <marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >I am not trying be argumentative with you(before we begin Carlos).You
> >mention "Helmut Newton," his work was considered so bad, particularly the
> >way he negatively portrays women, that his books had to be removed from
> the
> >university library. If they weren't the feminists' would steal his books
> and
> >dump them in the bin or tear them up Bob Carlos Clarke's work suffered the
> >same fate.
>
> Actualy Newtons done some good. work. I would be concerned that an
> institution which removed Newtons work from their shelves for reasons of
> political corectness might consider themselves a university, it just seems a
> little pretentious to me.
> Laurence Cuffe
>
> From his obituary in the NYT
> "Mr. Newton received many awards for his work, including the Grand Prix
> National de la Ville de Paris and Commander in the Order of Arts and
> Letters. In October, he donated more than 1,000 of his pictures to a German
> cultural foundation for a museum intended to be a national center for
> photography. It is scheduled to open in June in Berlin. "
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