Ultimatums & Political Warfare Common In Photography World? How To Handle?

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<p>Landrum. with respect, you have a total lack of understanding.....</p>

<p>Try thinking folk as human beings without putting names and tags on them. Landrum.</p>

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<p>Allen, except for the section beginning "Relevance," I was referring to one thing and one thing only: how it is <em><strong>likely</strong></em> that the phrase "colored people" came to be racially sensitive whereas the phrase "people of color" did not. I have not labeled anyone, nor created any such labels.</p>

<p>I stand by everything I wrote. If you are accusing me of being racially insensitive, then be prepared to defend such a spurious and scurrilous charge. I have written, taught, and given papers at conferences about race and related matters. I have been tear-gassed in defense of the rights of African-Americans. I taught six years at an African-American college, in my sixties at that, long after many of my colleagues retreated from the academic wars. My record is equally strong with regard to the defense of Hispanics and other oft-maligned groups.</p>

<p>If you are going to imply that I am to any degree a racist, then you will have committed libel, which is not constitutionally-protected speech. I am copying this thread in order to defend my own reputation and interests.</p>

<p><strong>If you are accusing me of having said that there are bullies on this thread, on the other hand, then you are dead-on accurate.</strong></p>

<p>--Lannie</p>

<p>"If you are going to imply that I am to any degree a racist, then you will have committed libel"</p>

<p>Okay Im scared....Im going to hide under my bed...</p>

<p>Promise I will not say another word because you will get me...</p>

<p>Landrum Kelly is a wonderful person and all his posts are wonderful.</p>

<p>And he is not a racialist, even secretly, and I apology if any of my thoughts have remotely implied that thought. </p>

<p>There, apart from kissing your arse, what more can I say.</p>

<p>Chill out.....</p><div></div>

<p>That's actually a fine photo, Allen! They both are, but this one is particularly good.</p>

<p>Mm, what is a. . . "racialist"?</p>

<p>--Lannie</p>

<p>Thanks, and a bigger thanks , for the chill....</p>

<p>Now where is that Freddy...</p>

<p><a href="/photo/9398066"><strong>HERE</strong></a> is another fine photo by you, Allen.</p>

<p>Perhaps this thread will bear photographic fruit at all and make it possible for members of (and visitors to) Photo.net to get to know the work that is archived her--and that is continually appearing here.</p>

<p>--Lannie</p>

<p>"T"hat's actually a fine photo, Allen! They both are, but this one is particularly good" Landrum".</p>

<p>Thanks, kind words.</p>

<p>Actually ,the former is the better photo......to my mind; look and look again....the little touch of feeling and all it implies.</p>

 

<p>Allen, I think I could make the case either way. They are both fine pieces of work.</p>

<p>--Lannie</p>

<p>Thanks Landrum, I'm a sucker for a compliment. But I think you are missing the significant different between the two.</p>

<p>Anyway, as mentioned in another thread, you are the poster.</p>

<p>And no, I don't think you are a racialist, just caught in the cross fire.</p>

<p>Fun photo...</p><div></div>

<p>Another great one, Allen.</p>

<p>--Lannie</p>

<p>Allen, here is one of mine made at a concert given at Livingstone College not too many years ago.</p>

<p>--Lannie</p><div></div>

<p>Many things to like about the above posted street photograophy images and the choir.</p>

<p>The college choir image is striking for its use of chiaroscuro and its separation of the individuals who are nonetheless very together and in apparent perfect harmony, a collective cultural expression that also speaks to the well-being, optimism and the future of its subjects. The hands holding the song books are great complements to the faces.</p>

<p>A question regarding the small separated white element below the upper hands (a book leaflet) - has the unseen part of it (and the book of the upper two sinhgers) been blocked by something else (dark garment?) or were the unseen parts consciously painted out in PS?</p>

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<p>The hands holding the song books are great complements to the faces.</p>

 

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<p>Thank you, Arthur. When I first posted <a href="/photo/10313250"><em><strong>a less tightly cropped version</strong></em></a> of this to PN, the title was "Hands."</p>

<p>As for the dark areas, you can probably see what I did by looking at the photo I just linked to. The posted version here was also in the same folder.</p>

<p>--Lannie</p>