[Leica] new series: americans and their firearms

[langeratcarleton at gmail.com (Mark Langer)]

You won't get any argument from me, Phillippe, but I once made a comment in
favour of gun control on a camera group and got about a week's worth of hate
male from subscribers, so screen your email very carefully.

Mark

On 2/21/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:
>
> Great idea! And if you keep up this level of deceivingly enchanting
> photography, this could turn out to be a real pamphlet against
> universally allowing weapons.
> That's how I look at it, anyway.
> And I know I should duck now...
> Thanks for showing,
> Philippe
>
>
> Op 21-feb-06, om 19:08 heeft Raimo K het volgende geschreven:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "kyle cassidy"
> > <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
> > To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:41 AM
> > Subject: [Leica] new series: americans and their firearms
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Last week I was staggering home from the local watering hole,
> >> content in that I'd started a bar fight between a group of hippies
> >> and some mennonites and gotten myself out unscathed and in
> >> posession of a bottle of scotch that I hadn't paid for, when i
> >> stumbled on a crack in the sidewalk and found myself up-ended on
> >> the curb. A large, white 1972 hard top Cadillac Coupe de Ville
> >> (the two door model) with a big silver hood scoop on the front
> >> broke most of my fall and eased me to the Earth where I was
> >> considering staying for a while while I regained some sense of
> >> balance. As I lay there, a window opened on the second floor of
> >> the house in front of me and a little old lady -- maybe 75 or 80
> >> with a bun of silver grey hair and a black and fuscha house coat
> >> stuck her head out the window, brandishing a large silver handgun
> >> and shouting at me to get off of her car before she aerated me
> >> like a lawn. Rightly motivated I stumbled to my feet while she
> >> fired a warning shot into the trees. I had sobered up quite a bit
> >> and took the remaining blocks to consider that it would be a Right
> >> Neat project to do a series of portraits of American gun owners,
> >> with their guns, in their houses. Something that my old mentor
> >> [name redacted] might even approve of. I dusted off the old 6x6,
> >> packed a lunch and some bullets, and went off in search of
> >> America. My goal is to do one a week until someone gives me a show
> >> at the Whitney.
> >>
> >> In any event, here's the first in a series:
> >>
> >> http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-4b.jpg
> >>
> >> http://www.netaxs.com/~cassidy/ago/donno-judy-7.jpg
> >>
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