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Subject: [Leica] new series: americans and their firearms
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Mon Feb 20 18:00:37 2006
References: <007c01c63687$efe365a0$6401a8c0@milla>

While I love the softness of the B&W version, the red PJ's in the color
version with the appropriate color walls makes the second image to die for.
:)

Goth girls do 10 gauge, 7.62 as a fashion accessory, who knows where this
could lead.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 2/20/06, kyle cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Last week I was staggering home from the local watering hole, content in
> that I'd started a bar fight between a group of hippies and some
> mennonites
> and gotten myself out unscathed and in posession of a bottle of scotch
> that
> I hadn't paid for, when i stumbled on a crack in the sidewalk and found
> myself up-ended on the curb. A large, white 1972 hard top Cadillac Coupe
> de
> Ville (the two door model) with a big silver hood scoop on the front broke
> most of my fall and eased me to the Earth where I was considering staying
> for a while while I regained some sense of balance. As I lay there, a
> window
> opened on the second floor of the house in front of me and a little old
> lady -- maybe 75 or 80 with a bun of silver grey hair and a black and
> fuscha
> house coat stuck her head out the window, brandishing a large silver
> handgun
> and shouting at me to get off of her car before she aerated me like a
> lawn.
> Rightly motivated I stumbled to my feet while she fired a warning shot
> into
> the trees. I had sobered up quite a bit and took the remaining blocks to
> consider that it would be a Right Neat project to do a series of portraits
> of American gun owners, with their guns, in their houses. Something that
> my
> old mentor [name redacted] might even approve of. I dusted off the old
> 6x6,
> packed a lunch and some bullets, and went off in search of America. My
> goal
> is to do one a week until someone gives me a show at the Whitney.
>
> In any event, here's the first in a series:
>
> http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-4b.jpg
>
> http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-7.jpg
>
>
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