Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What was it? 'Out of my bare hands...' ;-) One thing should be clear though: nothing more difficult than to change a historical induced habit. And I respect that. Op 21-feb-06, om 20:53 heeft Mark Langer het volgende geschreven: > You won't get any argument from me, Phillippe, but I once made a > comment in > favour of gun control on a camera group and got about a week's > worth of hate > male from subscribers, so screen your email very carefully. > > Mark > > On 2/21/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: >> >> Great idea! And if you keep up this level of deceivingly enchanting >> photography, this could turn out to be a real pamphlet against >> universally allowing weapons. >> That's how I look at it, anyway. >> And I know I should duck now... >> Thanks for showing, >> Philippe >> >> >> Op 21-feb-06, om 19:08 heeft Raimo K het volgende geschreven: >> >>> >>> ----- 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >