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Subject: [Leica] Family of Man II
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@netconnect.com.au>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:52:31 +1100

Ok friends, there seems to be some enthusiasm for the idea. I'll start to
beef it out a bit. I will begin by defining categories: please feel free to
add/subtract or comment

* The Seven ages of man
* The Works of Man: great and small
* Portraits: individual
* Portraits: group and family
* Tradional skills in a modern world
* Work in the new Millenium
* Beliefs and Faith
* Pastimes, sports and pleasure
* Glimpses of the future
* Reflections of our past
* Inhumanity

Images can be sent to me probably at a 600 x 400 pixel jpg size, or a URL
can be sent, and I can point the exhibits page to your server -- this would
be preferable as it will save me a lot of space and stop my ISP getting
"worried".

I intend at this stage to exhibit all entries on a web site, divided into
the above/or modified categories. Judging will be in November of each year,
and the selected images from that year will be highlighted in a web exhibit
to be seen over the Christmas New Year period, before the beginnings of the
new years collection. I will also produce a CD rom of the years winning
images which anyone in the project will be able to purchase at "cost". At
this stage I would see this as some form of perhaps pdf file, but some of
you may not want your work distributed on CD's -- I envisage the quality
being no higher than the web exhibits, which anyone can download, so I am
presuming this would not be a problem, but let me know. By returning your
CD at the end of each year you will have the next phase added to the
collection. At least this way, if the project dies after 3 years, we all
have something to remember it by ;-) Judging will be open to anyone
involved in the project, or perhaps open to the entire LUG or perhaps we
need outside advise/judges. I favour the former. To register for the
project, please e-Mail me at

firkin@netconnect.com.au

I will start a project database. You do not have to submit work to register
interest -- after all, you have 5 years to submit work, but I would like a
list of interested parties so that I can keep everyone informed both on and
off the LUG. It will also allow me to call for help from those interested
;-)

Next some questions: Does anyone know if we can use the name Family of Man
II, or do we need permission/a new name? I would like the project to
reflect the origins of the Edward Steichen concept, and so I favour using
the original title if at all possible. At this time I would call it:

The Family of Man II
Leica Users Group Project
A celebration of humanity.

Does anyone object to me co-ordinating the project, at least in its
embryonic form?

More as we go along.

cheers

Alastair Firkin

http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html

Replies: Reply from "Rob Heyman" <rheyman@bigpond.net.au> (Re: [Leica] Family of Man II)