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Subject: [Leica] My first gallery posting on LUG
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:38:08 -0700
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Hi William, welcome.

On another lister's introduction, I purchased Causes and Spirits, and it's
wonderful!

Thank you for sharing your images!

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:14 PM, William Carter
<bywilliamcarter at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear LUG:
>
> I uploaded 2 photos that I used in my blog post referred to in my last
> posting. The first one is featured on the cover of the March 2012
> issue of The Sun magazine, which, according to its website, ?is an
> independent, ad-free monthly magazine that for more than thirty years
> has used words and photographs to invoke the splendor and heartache of
> being human.? Also in the folder is another one I took of two Yemeni
> children.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bywilliamcarter/tribalism/
>
> In 1964, when I first arrived in Beirut (where I would be based for
> two years as a photojournalist), I met Dana Schmidt, the New York
> Times Middle East bureau chief, who asked me to accompany him on a
> journey to Cairo, Yemen, and Aden. From Sana?a, Yemen, we traveled
> north toward a tribal civil war then raging between the Royalists
> (backed by the Saudis) and the Republicans (backed by the Egyptians).
> The country was extremely undeveloped in those days. We met this man
> on the road north. He wore his curved dagger as a traditional emblem
> of manly power. Stuck in his headband was a sprig of khat, a mild
> narcotic plant chewed by most Yemeni men in the afternoons to induce a
> state of semi-stupor. The photo is reproduced in my recent book,
> Causes and Spirits.  The full un-cropped print, made in my darkroom,
> includes the long-abandoned ruins of a castle on the hill behind the
> man.
>
> Here's the rest of the blog post:
>
> http://bywilliamcarter.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/them-vs-us-and-beyond/
>
> Let me know whether I'm doing this right, or if I've violated any of
> your conventions.
>
> William Carter
>
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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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