First a disclaimer: I did not receive digest V03 #1479, so there are possibly other comments that I haven't seen yet.
And what might the thickness of one's glasses have to do with a person's mental state? There are forms of (usually from birth) mental disorders that have physical manifestations. I believe one has a manifestation of extremely poor eyesight. I do not want to imply that all people with very poor eyesight have mental problems. You even asked the question of her mental state in your original post. Is street photography art? Well, I suppose you might want to start by defining street photography. But, IMO, by any sense of the definition, it certainly is, just as much as a close-up of a flower petal. I wanted to emphasize the question: is it right to do something simply because it is (or you call it) art? The example that comes to mind is graffiti. Some consider it art. Does that then make it right for the "artist" to deface someone else's property? In thinking about my uncomfortableness I realize that this picture goes against my "we need a gentler world" philosophy. My opinion is that the image's potential to hurt far outweighs any socio/political statement, or expression of art, the image may have. Other's opinions may differ. Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)
