Charles Baudelaire Refers to Bloggers… err Photographers, as Imbeciles

Would Charles Baudelaire Hate the Kindle? -from csus.edu via the26th story
19th century French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire’s famous attack on photography:

“As the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the mark of a blindness, an imbecility, but had also the air of a vengeance…” Read the entire thing

This reminds me of certain traditional journalists and their hatred of bloggers.

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