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Subject: [Leica] They That Are Left
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:00:54 -0700
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>> color adds but it takes away...I think we only need the bw,

Steve


>> Hi LUGers
>> 
>> As some of you may remember for the past 7 years on remembrance day I 
>> have been shooting portraits of veterans, the portraits are all shot in 
>> the same style, crop etc, I am aiming to keep shooting it for at least 
>> another 3 years. The project is based around the concept of The Unknown 
>> Soldier
>> 
>> 
>> This is the intro from the book proposal
>> 
>> "...They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
>> Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
>> At the going down of the sun and in the morning
>> We will remember them..."
>> 
>> from Laurence Binyon's 'The Fallen' (first published in The Times, 21st
>> September 1914)
>> 
>> "They that are left..." : 'Remembrance' portraits.
>> 
>> Each year they are older, and as they do indeed grow old, as age does 
>> weary them and as the years do now condemn them more to what they still 
>> remember than to our truly remembering what they fought for (which is 
>> very simple : us),
>> they thus become unknown.
>> These faces then are as of unknown soldiers
>> : no cap badges, no ribbons of spooling medals, no insignia for military 
>> rank. Faces, only. Each deep-etched with who they are and what they did, 
>> that we might look, and think -- and thank them.
>> there's a sample of the work here
>> http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/9423
>> in a slideshow format
>> 
>> I've recently processed some of these in colour which may lead to an 
>> offshoot project
>> 
>> http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/2010/03/colour_31.html
>> 
>> do they work as well as the black and whites?
>> 
>> Comments and opinions welcomed!
>> thanks for your time!
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> 
>> Brian David Stevens
>> http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/
>> 
>> 
>> 
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