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Subject: [Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Jul 25 12:39:18 2005

Why? And how does the fact that he has untrimmed eyebrows make one question
that he is "affable, pleasant, soft spoken, and gregarious?" Was Kyle
shooting a portrait of an artist, or an image for an eyebrow trimmer
campaign?


On 7/25/05 3:21 PM, "Stasys Petravicius" <stasys1@cox.net> wrote:

> Kyle- I like it- but - could you erase the hair from the right eyebrow
> that crosses his eye? Otherwise he looks like he has all the attributes
> that you ascribe. Stasys
> On Jul 25, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
> 
>> No latex, no piercings. I knew that only leica glass could do this one
>> justice.
>> 
>> 
>> A portrait of composer George Crumb.
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2005/31/2.jpg
>> 
>> 
>> when i was in college, the crumb buzz peaked when the kronos quartet
>> annouced that they had recorded Black Angels, crumb's 1970 reaction to
>> the
>> vietnam war, long though to be unplayable because of its extreme
>> complexity.
>> everybody was listening to it. the recording is brilliant -- melodic,
>> dissonet, frightening -- it was like being shot through the chest with
>> a
>> violin.
>> 
>> Dr. Crumb himself I found to be affable, pleasant, soft spoken, and
>> gregarious. All those positive adjectives that you want to attribute to
>> someone you admire.
>> 
>> Thanks to Jim Shulman with hooking me up with this portrait gig.
>> 
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