Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle, what can I say - this is far more powerful than any of your previous stuff. What I saw in the goth babes was that you were getting out and making some pictures but (no offense intended) there wasn't much more than that. What I see now is that you are mentally focussed enough to tell a story. Very big difference. IMHO the goth babes stuff was not a waste of time, you were getting warmed up. On Mon, 28 August 2000, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > > 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 Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt - -------------------------------------------------- Visit the Northwestern Alumni Association portal page at http://www.nualumni.com to get free web-based e-mail and many other exciting features.