Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Peter - The gun was loaded. It is one that has a laser to point where the bullet will go and they kept pointing the laser at different people, jokingly. I will not show this photo to the relatives. They are all extreme right-wing conservatives who are convinced that Obama is coming to get their guns, so the guns are not registered. All of the men have a dozen or more guns. The women who live alone have guns by their beds. None of them use computers so there is no danger that they will ever see the photo. Thanks, Tina On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > Tina: Pardon the pun, but this photo is loaded. I hope the gun isn't. > And even if it isn't, anyone who knows anything about firearms safety > would know that you *never* hand someone a gun by pointing it at them! > > What I find most chilling about the photo is the casualness of it. The > MM's tonality makes it too beautiful, which also creeps me out. Also, you > have light hair in the background and the dark arms and darker pistol, > which to me creates a little "subliminable" editorializing. :-) As does > the woman's single eye at the left (which also compositionally balances the > single spectacle lens at right). And then you've got the jar of homemade > jam on the table just under the gun. And also, the gun looks like something > that a female spy might use, or the femme fatale in a detective story. > > Now, OTOH, I've lived in Kentucky and Eastern Washington, and spent time > in rural Idaho and Montana. I've known people who would find this a very > ordinary scene. Or maybe even touching--the man got a purse-totable pistol > suitable for the little woman, good for "protection." Or maybe one of them > is a dedicated collector who likes fine mechanical pistols the way we like > fine mechanical Leicas. > > I remember the all-over-the-map reactions to Kyles "Armed America" book. I > suspect you'll get a microcosm of that with this photo. > > All in all, a picture full of very rich juxtaposition of hot-button > archetypes, and they're going to mean very different things to different > people. I'd be very curious if you'll show this to your relatives, how > they react if you do. > > --Peter > > > > > Family reunion of Tea-Party members in Alabama: > > > > http://www.pbase.com/image/**152934358<http://www.pbase.com/image/152934358> > > > > C&C greatly appreciated. > > > > Tina > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com