>>4278683When you realize some context its typical
Step 1: Leica evacuated jewish employees and their families from Germany. Part of the sendoff package was a free camera.
Step 2: Jews in America had connections with financial nobility due to a religious command to help their fellow jews.
Step 3: Film was as expensive them as it is today, often more. Good street photography requires snapshitting through at least a roll a day. Sometimes more.
Step 4: already wealthy and connected jews with free cameras are allowed into galleries due to the religiously required acts of charity on the part of jews in the art world
Now, a jew with a leica blowing through tri-x like a kid with a box of candy and getting into a gallery instantly is a stereotype. Dont forget they spend a lot of time in NYC. Always.
Meanwhile white people only exercise this amount of nepotism outside of modern art, as the WASP work ethic sees modern art as a degenerate time waster, leading them to be largely excluded.
