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Subject: [Leica] Ashes to ashes...dust to dust
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed Mar 21 06:22:38 2007
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Bill,
if the pictures are even half as "visual" as what you wrote below, it's 
going to be a classic essay.
Cheers
Douglas

Lottermoser George wrote:
> Wonderful first step into the project. I highly recommend that read 
> PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon. I have no doubt that it will 
> inspire you explore your subject deeper than you're dreaming even now.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george@imagist.com
>
>
>
> On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Bill Clough wrote:
>
>>    I started in photography about this time in 1960. By 1962 I had a 
>> vague idea of a theme. I wished to capture the Texas Panhandle and 
>> the adjacent areas around it. Not the Chamber of Commerce Panhandle, 
>> but >my< Panhandle, where I grew up. It's cowboy country--a land, 
>> then, at the end of the Dust Bowl. We still had black dusters then, 
>> and cold fronts with sustained winds of 75 mph. When they blew 
>> through telephone lines along the Santa Fe tracks the sound was pure 
>> Gregorian. I stayed with the same theme for more than 15 years 
>> and--truth to tell--had I some kind of grant I would gladly spend an 
>> entire year trying to capture that area's many moods. Its beauty 
>> isn't like that of Colorado, for instance. It doesn't jump out at 
>> you; you have to find it. But it's there...some of it, anyway. For 
>> the next 74 days, I hope to post one photo a day of this essay. 
>> Sadly, most of the subjects are gone. I search for landmarks and 
>> cannot find them. Now, they are only here.
>
>
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