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Subject: [Leica] Photographing Othello -- is this a trap? (warning: contains images)
From: topoxforddoc at btinternet.com (Charlie Chan)
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 22:15:07 +0000
References: <E94003AC-F22E-4E4F-84B2-1458821C78AB@gmail.com>

Kyle,

that?s a great shot - nice composition and poses with moody lighting. I like 
it!

Best wishes,

Charlie

www.charlie-chan.co.uk

On 29 Jan 2015, at 19:55, kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at 
gmail.com> wrote:

> Leica M9, 35mm Summilux
> 
> http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/805499.html
> 
> So ... how do you do a poster for Othello? There have been posters for 
> Othello for four hundred years. After Curio Theatre asked me to work on 
> this I looked at a lot of them. Most of the contemporary posters for the 
> play feature some aspect of Othello strangling Desdemona (spoilers, it 
> happens) -- lots of hands on throats. And the way I look at it, Othello 
> can either be a play about Othello, or it can be a play about Iago, but 
> it's never a play about Desdemona -- though she always gets a lot of face 
> time on the posters. It worried me going in that I might fall into a 
> visual rut, so I was actually a bit relieved when the scheduling wouldn't 
> allow Desdemona to be there for the shoot (I had to do it late at night). 
> 
> I wanted to focus on, two things, one the military aspect and two the part 
> of the play that exists before everything blows up, the very beginning 
> when two warriors return from battle and I imagined going in "what if I 
> was some photographer sent out to do a hero magazine cover for two dudes 
> who just beat the Turkish navy? I wouldn't know the backstory, I wouldn't 
> know that Iago's got all this plotting going on that he's just been passed 
> over for promotion, I'd just be like "stand here and look heroic" and then 
> it's up to the actor (in this case the very capable Brian McCaann, to tell 
> the subtitles of his character through his body language -- so you learn 
> who Iago is through Brian's complex subtitles, and you learn who Othello 
> is by Steve Wright's body language and how he decides what Othello would 
> do and not through me going "alright, let's strangle someone?. 
> 
> 
> Kyle
> 
> 
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