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

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Its a tough play to bring to life, and equally tough on one's emotions to
sit through as well. Lovely shots. TFS.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:02 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug <
leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:

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