Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]She'd look better in something strapless. Jim Shulman Bryn Mawr, PA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Cassidy Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:09 PM To: 'lug@leica-users.org' Subject: RE: [Leica] Kyle posts provocative new work in a futile attempt to stop the innane riefenstahl nonsense! 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