Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi William, welcome. On another lister's introduction, I purchased Causes and Spirits, and it's wonderful! Thank you for sharing your images! On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:14 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>