Re: [Leica] kyle's lost his @#$@#$! mind - week 35

[chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)]

Kyle,

Sounds like a class I'd like to take, and I don't go for workshops much. I
saw a want ad over the weekend, MEM advertising for an
assistant. I'd probably apply, if it weren't for the highly-overrated skill
factor.

Even if she thought it was a Bad Idea, good on you for seeing it through.

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle Cassidy" <cassidy@netaxs.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:57 AM
Subject: [Leica] kyle's lost his @#$@#$! mind - week 35


> so -- week 35 would be some pix from my project for mary ellen mark's
> doccumentary photography master class that i've been in for the last two
> weeks but they're still, um, well, i'm not sure i want to link them from
> the pic a week site. there are all sorts of photo ethics issues that
> you'll no doubt be bombarding me with over the next couple of days which
> is why i'm sort of keeping it under my hat until i've figured them out --
> but since you people don't live around here, you're practically anonymous
> and i can share with you:
>
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/goth/secret/
>
> when i started working on this project and got really involved with it, i
> quickly realized that everything else i've done has been meaningless. i
> felt like throwing it all out and was actually really embarrassed by a lot
> of it -- like i'd been wasting my time and film. (if you want to get that
> sort of warm fuzzy about the crap you've been laborously shooting for the
> last five years, i recommend her class -- it'll wake you up.) i saw that
> nothing i'd done had real substance or depth or emotional content. my goth
> photos -- & the whole idea of it, are entirely superficial -- basically
> just low quality fashion photography (not that there's anything wrong with
> fashion, i'd love to do fashion actually) but i was missing the point, or
> at least missing the story. & i think that for the first time i'm really
> on the way to being able to tell a story completely through images -- in
> fact, i find that nothing that i could say about it would be of any worth.
> this is only a few shots from the first day. more to follow when i figure
> out what i'm doing.
>
> for the record, mary ellen thought this project was a Bad Idea.
>
>
> kyle damn-fool-with-a-leica cassidy
>
>
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