Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They are indeed - When I looked at the two images side by side last night it was on a projection screen, and they looked blue. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Greg J. Lorenzo Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 12:15 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] McCurry's Afghan Girl [OT] Hi B.D., I'm a little color blind but aren't those startling blue eyes green? Regards, Greg B. D. Colen wrote: >I have to say that when I saw the two images I really wondered - and still >do wonder - if it is the same woman. Sure, the eyes look the same - but the >nose is a different shape, not broken or smashed looking, just a different >shape in terms of the tip - and the mouths are different. Could this be a >gigantic con on the part of the woman and or her family, something that >McCurry and Nat Geo so desperately want to believe that they've fallen for >it? Not to be too much of a cynic, but....and as to the eyes - startling >blue eyes like that would make two very different looking people look >strikingly similar. > >B. D. >Still Cynical, After All These Years.... > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Christopher >Hoover - Pacbell >Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:31 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] McCurry's Afghan Girl [OT] > > >A friend was aghast when he saw these more recent images. How can a >person change so much? Don't worry, I told him, now she can be a >celebrity and move to LA, where doctors can make her look exactly >like the original picture taken when she was 12. > >Then, realizing she'll never make it beyond the interview circuit and >become the singer/model/actress she's always dreamed of without further >modification, she'll be lured into a full plastic rebirth to emerge as >"Sharbat!" (successor to Shakira, our current foreign-born singing >infatuation). > >Sound, Stage, Screen and Print! She'll go on a whirlwind tour, pledging 1% >of the proceeds (after tax) to help other less fortunately-photographed >Afghan refugees. > >Ultimately, driven to depression and self-loathing by the Hollywood machine, >she'll drive her Hummer off the Venice Beach pier into the Pacific, injuring >only one young surfer. > >While recovering in the Betty Ford Clinic, she strikes up a friendship with >Mariah Carrey and moves in to her mansion in Brentwood. > >But Hollywood's through with the both of them and the agents stop calling >(even the tabloid paparazzi save their film). They're evicted and take >up life on the street where they both disappear into the invisible caste of >west coast refugees, pushing their shopping carts filled with decaying >copies of Glamour, down Sunset Blvd. > >Then, Steve McCurry, while on Vacation in LA, manages to capture a >frightening image of the two of them as they mob his Lexus. Again, iris >pattern matching is employed to confirm the identities of the two vagrant >women, and the newly famous image ends up on the cover of National >Geographic. > > >In jest, > >Chris Hoover >hoovercd@pacbell.net >NO ARCHIVE > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html