Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] Kyle posts provocative new work in a futile attempt t o stop the innane riefenstahl nonsense!
From: KCassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)
Date: Thu Aug 26 12:02:51 2004

Chandos Asked:

>Before I venture furtehr opinion, I'm curious to know what *you* think 
>you're about in these images.  My immediate response is to view them as 
>vaguely commercial in purpose (advertising), though with an eye toward 
>innuendo rather than explicitness, and they smack rather more of the 
>prurient than the hard edged, like a TV commercial for Viagra.

A fair question.

One of my concerns is that all I'm doing is making ordinary commercial pr0n.
Which isn't where I want to be. Another concern is that I'm too worried
about the art market and I'm copying david graham (and many other's) idea of
"take something odd (civil war reenactors, etc.) and light it so's you can
see everything". Which might just be the cheap way out and I'm never going
to get hung in those sorts of galleries anyway. You need to be too much of
an outsider.

That said, I think 

http://www.availabledark.com/~ratty/bound/2.jpg

Is successful and I'm happy with it, top to bottom (ahem. No pun intended).

This one I think is a decent portrait

http://www.availabledark.com/~ratty/bound/5.jpg

Despite blown highlights, but nothing better than your average free-weekly
newspaper photographer does three times a day. And I wonder if my better
shots are going to come from behind the scenes. So, to answer your question,
I'm still ambivilant. I'm not sure where this project is going, and I'm sure
I haven't lit it properly.

Kyle


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