Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great idea! And if you keep up this level of deceivingly enchanting photography, this could turn out to be a real pamphlet against universally allowing weapons. That's how I look at it, anyway. And I know I should duck now... Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 21-feb-06, om 19:08 heeft Raimo K het volgende geschreven: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "kyle cassidy" > <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> > To: <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:41 AM > 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