[Leica] PESO: American

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Jim Shulman SHOWED:
Subject: [Leica] PESO: American


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Good morning Jim,
Given the years of looking at your incredible captures of a particular 
segment of the American population as we see in these two. Have you ever 
considered doing a book? "THE AMERICAN'S! A sub-culture!" Or some title 
along those lines? Oh it should bring some hell-fire anti-comments .... " 
THAT ISN'T WHAT WE ARE LIKE ETC ETC!" But any controversy good, bad or ugly 
is great! It's super publicity and helps sell thousands of copies. :-) And 
my friend that is the name of the game in publishing a book..... "the hoped 
for major dollar return for your efforts! Like it or not! "

If we look at Kyle Cassidy's fabulous book "Armed America" as a sample in 
the population, why not show this completely other side of the culture 
coin?"

It's a natural, probably occurs every weekend somewhere in the USA. But you 
appear to find the characters not so far from home, that if it were a book 
with a travel advance from the publisher it would allow sites far from home. 
If necessary. Although hardly appears to be so in the collection so far.

In your collection too date I'm sure you could put together a hundred images 
in about a 24-48 hour time frame and have it ready for publication without 
to much effort. It isn't like you are fabricating the images as they're 
right out in the open for the world to see. And being out in public, all 
these people are fair game having their pictures taken unbeknown or not.

And if not a book, a smashing great exhibition at MOMA in New York would 
draw thousands, I'm sure. I'd have these two characters as the cover picture 
and lead image for promotion of any exhibition or book publicity.

Just a passing thought on a book, as we've seen a never ending array of like 
"CHARACTERS" over the years!

Actually a shot at Kyle's publisher might be the first one to hit on!?  I'm 
sure Kyle could at least get you in the door for a first show and tell 
discussion rather than going in cold ?

PLEASE THINK ABOUT IT!

Cheers,
ted