not get any complaints. Seems to be the reference
to prostitution and drugs that bothers people.
2) Interpreting this series as showing how photos can lie because the
cops labeled the series, The Effects of Drugs and Prostitution strikes
me as making a strong assertion without proof. (Perhaps
purposes.
However, it's probably best as an example of how
photography can be used to lie. Compare some of the
later pictures in the series to, for instance, Dorothy Lange's
Okie mother; what you are seeing is the effects of poverty
and life on the street; not the effects of drugs or
prostitution
are seeing is the effects of poverty
and life on the street; not the effects of drugs or
prostitution either. A woman's sad life is being callously
used by the police department for propaganda purposes.
Incorporating pictures like this in a drug education course
would be a real disservice
In that case it is OT.
Frits
Luis Pinar wrote:
What's the point? Were they taken with Pentax equipment?
See Treena's comment below:
These photos are both disturbing and heartbreaking
at the same time. I referred this website to my
husband, who believes it could
that bothers people.
2) Interpreting this series as showing how photos can lie because the
cops labeled the series, The Effects of Drugs and Prostitution strikes
me as making a strong assertion without proof. (Perhaps based in part on
anti-police bias?) True, the cops have not presented evidence
This is a link to a series of arrest photographs of the same
individual over the course of 10 years. She was about 31~32 years
old at the time of the first photo. It's not a pleasant series of
photos.
http://www.hollywoodpolice.org/VIN_CAT/pic79_11.htm
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