Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The guy was a visitor, like me. I told him that it looked like him; he laughed and said "I know!" I took his picture with his camera, and then he posed for me. I wish I had gotten his name. The sculpture also resembles Jim Nichols. ;-) It is a great museum, not too big to pass through in a day, the collection flows beautifully, and the architecture is a wonder. There were a couple galleries not open as they were changing the exhibit, but I didn't see much photography, except a set of three Polaroid 20x24 portraits of Bill Clinton. from my iPad Sonny Carter > On Oct 25, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > Sonny, a remarkable resemblance - is that the artist's real father? :-) > Seriously, the photo sent me scudding through the net and the museum looks > very impressive. It says it collects photography but I can't see any link > to it on the web. Did you see any? > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 4:13 PM > Subject: [Leica] Life = Art > > >> In Bentonville, Arkansas, there's the Crystal Bridges Museum of American >> Art. One piece is a much larger than life sculpture of an artist who aged >> the image to approximate what he thought he'd look like someday. >> >> Admiring the work was this nice fellow, who agreed to pose with the bust. >> >> http://sonc.com/look/?p=5242 >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://sonc.com/look/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> 1714 >> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase >> >> USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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