Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OOOOOOOOOOh...do me next! Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of kyle cassidy Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:41 PM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] new series: americans and their firearms Last week I was staggering home from the local watering hole, content in that I'd started a bar fight between a group of hippies and some mennonites and gotten myself out unscathed and in posession of a bottle of scotch that I hadn't paid for, when i stumbled on a crack in the sidewalk and found myself up-ended on the curb. A large, white 1972 hard top Cadillac Coupe de Ville (the two door model) with a big silver hood scoop on the front broke most of my fall and eased me to the Earth where I was considering staying for a while while I regained some sense of balance. As I lay there, a window opened on the second floor of the house in front of me and a little old lady -- maybe 75 or 80 with a bun of silver grey hair and a black and fuscha house coat stuck her head out the window, brandishing a large silver handgun and shouting at me to get off of her car before she aerated me like a lawn. Rightly motivated I stumbled to my feet while she fired a warning shot into the trees. I had sobered up quite a bit and took the remaining blocks to consider that it would be a Right Neat project to do a series of portraits of American gun owners, with their guns, in their houses. Something that my old mentor [name redacted] might even approve of. I dusted off the old 6x6, packed a lunch and some bullets, and went off in search of America. My goal is to do one a week until someone gives me a show at the Whitney. In any event, here's the first in a series: http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-4b.jpg http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-7.jpg _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information