Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aside from being a great photo, Kyle did market it well. The bare shoulders & low-cut strapless dress supposedly on Liz gave the ability to shoot at an angle which allowed the viewer to look at this as an implied nude. It's a great way to make you look at the photo. The deep brown eyes look right at the viewer in either a very alive connected way or perhaps a very disconnected, dead way. The skirt coming out of the mouth is not quite risque but the fact that a portrait was made with a mouth wide open makes this very different. Again, it's a good photo and Kyle did what people usually want their photographs to do. Stir up a bit of imagination and cause people to look at it over an over. Good job KC. PhilFo On Sunday 30 September 2007 18:08, Steve Barbour wrote: > On Sep 30, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > > Art is often the child of confused parents and finding out its > > lineage can, in my mind, be ruinous to the final product. Sometimes > > the juxtaposition of influences, random thoughts, bits of this and > > that, come from various places to create a sum greater than the > > whole of it's parts, sometimes not. For years, as a child, I was > > drawn to Wyeth's "Christina's World" -- I stared at a copy of it on > > a book cover for years, I had a print on my wall, wondering what > > she could possibly be doing in that field ... it was baffling and > > filled with possibilities ... when I was a freshman in college > > someone told me what it was -- the truth, the real deal, that > > Christina was a real person and she was indeed in that field for a > > very real reason and ... the magic was ruined -- the truth wasn't > > nearly as interesting as my imagination. > > > > as for the portrait of liz > > > >>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/liz-dress1.jpg > > > > if you google "medium" and "ectoplasm" and hit "images" all secrets > > will become apparent -- maybe the image will get funny, maybe it'll > > be ruined ... maybe it'll seem deeper, and you'll think we're > > esoteric, or clever, or maybe you just won't care what my friends > > and i do on lazy sunday afternoons when all the netflix have been > > sent back and the laundry has been done. > > > > But as for Liz, who just turned 34, I'm sure she'll be happy to > > hear she could pass for 23 :-) > > indeed correct Kyle, more than correct...since she as photographed > looks roughly 14-16 yo... > > by choice I guess... > > (I looked at her web site, so I knew she was 33yo. > > So why did you and she make her look 20 years younger...and put her > into that setting...? > > Why indeed? > > The answer can indeed be found in google...more likely in the words > > ambiguity, titillation, exploitation, opportunism... > > > Steve > > > kc > > > >> Oh its a very young girl now lets play that card!! > >> This gal is 23 if she's a day and could easily have three kids and > >> be well > >> on her way to being a grandmother. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information