Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/25

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Subject: [Leica] New Project: Urban Landscapes
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon Jun 25 10:34:15 2007
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Kyle,

it might be easier to photograph the few places,

where nothing bad has happened....


Steve




> On Jun 25, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>
>> For a long time I've been interested in the thought that events leave
>> something behind on a place -- Gettysburg, Agincourt, etc. Many  
>> people
>> report feeling something inexpressable when in the places where  
>> events
>> happened. It spawns tourism, and is the stuff which causes  
>> monuments to
>> be made.
>>
>> This got me to thinking about the places in my home town where people
>> had been murdered. Philadelphia has suffered a rising murder rate  
>> in the
>> past years, passing the 400 mark in 2004 and not slowing down. But  
>> very
>> often these murders get nothing more than a line in an "end of year
>> roundup". And after two years have gone by, I wonder if any of the
>> people living on a block remember a killling that happened on the
>> corner.
>>
>> Anyway -- my new photo project -- for your perusal.
>>
>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/temp/memory/index.html
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] New Project: Urban Landscapes)
Message from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] New Project: Urban Landscapes)