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Subject: [Leica] homage to kyle cassidy's Armed America
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sun Jul 8 11:25:19 2007

Kyle,

Here is a lead if you are thinking about a sequel:

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=837509

I'm not sure about the exact contact info, but I'd probably start with
Montana.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Cassidy
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 7:17 AM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] homage to kyle cassidy's Armed America
> 
> >our copy of kyle cassidy's Armed America arrived today.
> >a terrific book, and the first photo art book my kids
> >have ever shown interest in.
> 
> >http://www.shinozuka.org/20070707aa/
> 
> When I wrote my book proposal, one of the things I said was "I expect this
> to be the first art book that many people buy." And I do think of this as
> a gateway book. I hope that after people buy it, and enjoy looking at the
> the photos, they'll pay attention when amazon.com recommends "based on
> your buying habits, we think you might like:" -- Suburbia, or Teenagers in
> Their Rooms, Passing Gass, or Mary Ellen Mark and that this one book might
> lead to a photography book addiction.
> 
> That was always my plan anyway. I do think that this book has the
> potential to have a lot of overlapping markets. It may get some people
> thinking about America, other people thinking about guns, other people
> thinking about interior design, and still others thinking about
> photography.
> 
> I have high hopes. Thanks to everyone who's bought it and continues to
> talk it up. Media (magazine reviews, newspapers, and the like) is being
> held up until August 1 to make sure that it's on shelves in bookstores
> when the publicity hits. My own local bookstore (barns and noble) is
> filing it under "political science" rather than "art" -- go figure -- so
> if you don't see it on the shelves where you're expecting to find it, go
> ahead and ask.
> 
> thanks again,
> 
> kc
> 
> on the edge of his seat waiting to break the News to the Lug -- but not
> just yet!
> 
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] homage to kyle cassidy's Armed America)