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Subject: [Leica] Mary Ellen Mark (was re: leica spotted at fred phelps protest)
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:25:41 -0800
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Kyle!!! Tell us more. How do they change you?!!

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu> 
wrote:
> Ken Said:
>>Excellent photos, especially the last two. ?Maybe this could be a new book
>>project. ?They remind me in a way of Mary Ellen Mark's KKK photos. ?The
>>photo of the little boy is beyond chilling. ?Someone did a photo essay on
>>snake handlers (evidently a group with an adverse mortality rate), but I
>>can't remember who.
>
> Mary Ellen Mark's KKK portraits were quite possibly the most influential 
> images I've ever seen. Everything changed after that.
>
> http://www.maryellenmark.com/images/large/odyssey/201B-021-009.jpg
>
> http://www.maryellenmark.com/images/large/odyssey/201B-047-022.jpg
>


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