[Leica] Photo in the Atlantic

[Howard Ritter]

A terrific, unsettling portrait of a predator, only half of half his face and one eye enigmatically seen, wings raised in a subtle expression of barely restrained power. Who’s the bored-looking mammal?

Figuring anything written by an author featured in The Atlantic, of which I sometimes find a stickied-up copy at my local beangrinder's, and photographed by our Kyle, bears looking into, I have been to Amazon and back, and am off to the bookstore tonight.

I mean to find out if “not prominently at all” is, as I suspect, irony. Or whatever the term is for an intentionally counterfactual statement made with a sense of wry humor in order to draw attention to something. Like “The LUG is a model of decorous online demeanour at all times."

—howard


> On Feb 16, 2015, at 5:12 PM, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Those of you who are the sort to be found in coffee shoppes reading the January 28th issue of The Atlantic will have the excellent fortune to see my portrait of novelist Jeff Vandermeer there in a long article about his book tour for the Southern Reach trilogy. I photographed him with an owl as one features, not prominently at all, in his final Southern Reach novel “Acceptance”. 
> 
> Largeish version here:
> 
> http://www.trbimg.com/img-54654702/turbine/jeff-vandermeer-owl-credit-kyle-cassidy-2014-jpg-20141113 <http://www.trbimg.com/img-54654702/turbine/jeff-vandermeer-owl-credit-kyle-cassidy-2014-jpg-20141113>
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