[Leica] Glass Menagerie w/ Leica 45 2.8 (warning: contains photos)

[kyle cassidy on the lug]

http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/792091.html


I love working with actors because it's their job to make fantasy reality. When you're telling some CEO "ok, now look smart" most of the time they're thinking about their lunch or their next meeting or some article they're writing but the one thing they're not really thinking about is how to make your photo amazing. Actors are thinking how to make your photo amazing. You can give them individual words, you can give them fake scenarios, you can give them moods and they go with it. When director Joshua Browns asked if I wanted to work with some of Philadelphia's best actors to do some photos for the Commonwealth Classic Theater production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie I was very happy.  

There's not a whole lot visual to The Glass Menagerie, it's a play about memory and the interactions of a family, but it's not a play where a house falls on a witch, so any visuals have to be subtler. 

The relationship between members of the family is extremely complicated and this is what the whole play is about, so I new I needed to do something that told who everybody was and how they got along in a single image. The cast have two hours to tell the story, the photographer has three seconds as someone drives past a bus shelter poster, so you've got to get it right fast. 

Leica 45mm f2.8, one photek soft lighter ii masquerading as window light.