Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 26, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > Steve hit something right on the head -- and very hard, when he > pointed > out: "clearly the folks who want to be photographed in their living > rooms with their guns are a very minute subset of gunned America, so > it's not evident what they represent... (except people who want to be > photographed in their living room with their guns...)" > > while working on this, i put a lot of time and energy into convincing > gun owners that i wasn't out to ridicule them, that i really did just > want to know why they owned guns -- that i wasn't making any > judgements > at all -- one way or the other, that i truely wanted an apolitical > book > -- and these people ended up coming out in droves to get photographed. > but what i'm having the most difficult time getting are people who own > guns but either don't like them, don't want them, or don't care about > them. further Kyle, how about those people who like them, want them, and care about them... use them for good, or for bad, or don't use them at all.... but don't want to advertise these facts with photos, especially sitting in their living rooms... ? Steve > people who inherrited guns from family members or have them left > over from a previous phase of their lives. right now, these are the > people i'm most interested in, but their story is proving the most > difficult to tell -- simply because they don't want to be photographed > with a gun. during this trip i had no less than five such people back > out. i'm in pennsylvania, so i can photograph deer hunters till i'm > blue > in the face -- but what i really want right now is someone who says > "this is my dad's gun. i hate guns, but i don't know what to do with > this. so it sits in the closet" -- that's a missing part of this story > and these voices are the ones i'm afraid are going to go unheard. > > advice is always apprecaited. > > kyle "mojave desert with no air conditioning survivor" cassidy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information