[Leica] My first gallery posting on LUG

[chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)]

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our work regularly here, a few of us do almost every day.

I enjoyed the two photos from Yemen in the 1960s. The Arabian Peninsula
has changed dramatically in the last 50 years. In to the 1960s, Riyadh,
Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City (and most other towns in Arabia) were still
mud-brick towns with walls and town gates! Yemen lagged behind in
modernizing, because there was no oil wealth. The history of that part of
the world fascinates me.

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On 3/18/12 3:14 PM, "William Carter" <bywilliamcarter at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dear LUG:
>
>I uploaded 2 photos that I used in my blog post referred to in my last
>posting. The first one is featured on the cover of the March 2012
>issue of The Sun magazine, which, according to its website, ?is an
>independent, ad-free monthly magazine that for more than thirty years
>has used words and photographs to invoke the splendor and heartache of
>being human.? Also in the folder is another one I took of two Yemeni
>children.
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bywilliamcarter/tribalism/
>
>In 1964, when I first arrived in Beirut (where I would be based for
>two years as a photojournalist), I met Dana Schmidt, the New York
>Times Middle East bureau chief, who asked me to accompany him on a
>journey to Cairo, Yemen, and Aden. From Sana?a, Yemen, we traveled
>north toward a tribal civil war then raging between the Royalists
>(backed by the Saudis) and the Republicans (backed by the Egyptians).
>The country was extremely undeveloped in those days. We met this man
>on the road north. He wore his curved dagger as a traditional emblem
>of manly power. Stuck in his headband was a sprig of khat, a mild
>narcotic plant chewed by most Yemeni men in the afternoons to induce a
>state of semi-stupor. The photo is reproduced in my recent book,
>Causes and Spirits.  The full un-cropped print, made in my darkroom,
>includes the long-abandoned ruins of a castle on the hill behind the
>man.
>
>Here's the rest of the blog post:
>
>http://bywilliamcarter.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/them-vs-us-and-beyond/
>
>Let me know whether I'm doing this right, or if I've violated any of
>your conventions.
>
>William Carter
>
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