Digital BW, The Print

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sanfo2003 [mailto:SandyCornelius@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:59 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Offensive ad
>
>
> I will be off this forum until Yahoo removes the AllPosters.com pop-
> up ad flashing in my face all the time graphically depicting a
> homosexual act. I find it offensive and depressing, and should not be
> forced to have it in front of me. Goodbye.
>
Sanfo,

Ah! I see the pop up. Very small one on the homepage and other pages to the
left under the group name banner. It is rapidly cycling through "Click
here", a basketball player, a shot from the Matrix and two women kissing
(all though I could not identify the gender of the participants it switches
so fast on my computer.)

If you follow the link, it is company that sells posters including art
posters of photographs. So since this is a group dedicated to photography it
makes sense that they would buy advertising space here. The piece in
question is a photograph entitled "Kiss" by Tanya Chalkin and is being
offered of sale next to posters of "Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23,
1945" by Joe Rosenthal. Also they are selling a bunch of Ansel Adams shots,
flowers, puppies in tea cups, etc.

I did not go through their entire offering as I have better things to do,
but personally I encountered nothing offensive. It all looks pretty tame
compared to some of the art I have seen but I guess offense like beauty is
in the eye of the beholder.

Martin Wesley