Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Is that a Kalashnikov? All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- 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