Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not a sociologist (nor do I play one on tv) but I am aware of an area of study called The Semiotics of Dress that has produced a lot of writing (and paid a lot of academic salaries) over the years. Smoke this, for example, if you can: http://ctr.sagepub.com/content/25/2/131.abstract So much interesting stuff out there, so little time to take it all in. Keep pushing the virtual camera button on that iPhone, the software is catching up! --Bob ==On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:33 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > > One of ?the things that really interests me about photographing > subcultures is the myriad ways that people use to differentiate themselves > into smaller and smaller groups and to display coded identity. It might be > a bumper sticker that says "my other car is a broom" or a tiny button that > says "leica" affixed to one's lapel, but we adopt dress and styles and > mannerisms that signal other people that we are either friend or foe. > Fashion rises and falls in waves -- be it high collars, working class > shoes, expensive hats, buzz cuts or any number of styles of facial hair. > > The signals sent out by this person are inviting to one tribe and > repelling to another, and so much of life is finding one's own people. > > That said, I'm certain that this person's wife is right happy with his > mohawk. He might get kicked out the house for showing up in a Tilly hat > and Mephistos. > > kc > > > On Nov 19, 2010, at 1:14 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> > wrote: > >> >> kyle cassidy showed: >> Subject: [Leica] iLeica Portrait >> >> >>> Sadly i did not have my Leica with me last night when perusing the >>> housewares isle at the local TJ Maxx looking for an All Clad butter >>> warmer. >>> I did snap this photo while I was there with my, cough cough, phone. >>> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/matt2.jpg >> >> >> And his mother always cooed how beautiful a baby he was! :-) If she could >> only see him now? >> >> Looks like he could be your worse case nightmare coming to "spike you to >> death!" :-) >> >> And standing at the alter about to marry his new bride the padre offers >> "And do you Mary take this freaking looking freak for your lawfully >> wedded husband?" >> >> She responded?............................ >> >> "Not on your hairy headed chance!" ;-) >> >> Oh well what else do you want on a Friday morning when looking at a freak >> ass character like this... >> REMEMBER..... ? ? ? ?"THEY WALK AMONGST US!" >> >> Neat photo Kyle I'd hope you could run faster than this guy as he might >> be a tad annoyed for singling him out as "Freak of the Year!" > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >