> > From: "Lucas Rijnders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/09/07 Thu PM 12:22:25 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Taking Candy from a baby. > > Op Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:01:19 +0200 schreef mike wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> From: "David Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I just heard about this on the news. > >> > >> The story: > >> <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2318645,00.html> > >> > >> The images: > >> <http://www.paulkopeikingallery.com/artists/greenberg/index0.htm> > >> > >> Is it art? Seems a bit mean spirited to me. > > It's probably art. Not very good art, in my opinion, but still art... > > >> Although when I think back to how my parents teased me when I was a > >> kid, it's pretty tame. At least they had the decency not to photograph > >> my reactions :-) > > > > I wouldn't have a problem with pictures of "genuine" reactions but > > forcing those reactions from toddlers seems to deserve the Edward II > > treatment. > > Isn't that a bit harsh (if I read up on Edward correctly)? My son pulls > faces like that serveral times a day. Sometimes without (discernible) > reason, sometimes after provocations quite similar to what was done here. > Thinks like saying 'you are going to bed' or 'no, you can't have another > cookie' to him :o) >
That is a normal (and proper) part of growing up. But taking the same child to a studio, lighting them and then deliberately provoking the reaction is abhorent to me. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
