Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]from Kyle Cassidy... >> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/wild-bill5.jpg >> >> A photograph needs to stand on its own. If you have to say "this >> is the >> oldest living confederate widow" for it to work, then you need to >> reshoot it. Hopefully this photo works on it's own. If it doesn't, >> hit >> me with your worst. this is one powerful image... esp in color... the fullness of the shirt, wallpaper, curtain, wall decoration...loaded with fruit and flowers... is jarring next to the emptiness of the man's stare.... Steve >> >> But, for your enjoyment, some backstory. >> >> >> >> "I killed a lotta Germans. Christ, I killed a lotta Germans on D- >> Day." >> >> Last night it was my great pleasure to photograph "Wild" Bill >> Guarnere >> of the 101st Airborne. Bill parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, fought >> across France, then parachuted again into Holland for operation >> Market >> Garden, lost a leg in the Battle of the Bulge, won a Silver Star for >> bravery and two Purple Hearts, and to this day takes no guff from >> local >> hoodlums. "You picked the right guy you @#$@# @!#$@$#er," he said to >> someone who threatened him on the street several years ago, "I've >> killed >> before and I ain't done yet." Then Bill chased the guy down the >> street >> on his crutches. >> >> Despite that, he's excruciatingly open and accommodating to polite >> people. He's been back to Germany fifteen times and when meeting old >> German soldiers he says "It's a good thing you're meeting me now, now >> you get a hug, back then, you woulda got a bullet, right between the >> eyes, if I'd seen you." >> >> Photographed with one monolight strobe in a softbox about three feet >> from the subject's left. Leica d200 with an 18-70. >> >> >> -- >> Reminder: all disks eventually fail. All computers eventually >> fail. Make backups or lose your work. >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > Reminder: all disks eventually fail. All computers eventually fail. > Make backups or lose your work. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information