Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A terrific, unsettling portrait of a predator, only half of half his face and one eye enigmatically seen, wings raised in a subtle expression of barely restrained power. Who?s the bored-looking mammal? Figuring anything written by an author featured in The Atlantic, of which I sometimes find a stickied-up copy at my local beangrinder's, and photographed by our Kyle, bears looking into, I have been to Amazon and back, and am off to the bookstore tonight. I mean to find out if ?not prominently at all? is, as I suspect, irony. Or whatever the term is for an intentionally counterfactual statement made with a sense of wry humor in order to draw attention to something. Like ?The LUG is a model of decorous online demeanour at all times." ?howard > On Feb 16, 2015, at 5:12 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at > gmail.com> wrote: > > Those of you who are the sort to be found in coffee shoppes reading the > January 28th issue of The Atlantic will have the excellent fortune to see > my portrait of novelist Jeff Vandermeer there in a long article about his > book tour for the Southern Reach trilogy. I photographed him with an owl > as one features, not prominently at all, in his final Southern Reach novel > ?Acceptance?. > > Largeish version here: > > http://www.trbimg.com/img-54654702/turbine/jeff-vandermeer-owl-credit-kyle-cassidy-2014-jpg-20141113 > > <http://www.trbimg.com/img-54654702/turbine/jeff-vandermeer-owl-credit-kyle-cassidy-2014-jpg-20141113> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information