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Subject: [Leica] shell's berkeley photos
From: "kyle cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 12:46:42 -0700

> Every now and then I'll post some photos I've made.  Here are the
> first two:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/BOBANGEL.JPG
> http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/bobjob.jpg
>
> I met Bob on the streets of Berkeley one afternoon and spent some time
> with him.  While we talked I clicked off a few frames, and these are
> some of the results.
>

hi shel -- you've got half of it -- now you have to go back. and back. and
back.

while the plug's 10 commandments of photography
(http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/leicaslacker/plug/10/index.html)
strictly forbid photographing homeless people, it does allow for photo
essays on homeless persons. we see a face and you have the opportunity to
make that face into a person for us. where does he sleep? where does he eat?
what's his story? where was he born? what was he doing in 1971?

you've chosen an extremely difficult subject to photograph and you've made
an inroad here, clear it out, turn this picture into something real. without
the depth of time and attention, it'll just be a guy.

rah rah rah [remainder of mary ellen mark style rant deleted]

good start,

kyle



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