This is the lifestyle
that was sold to the American public for thirty years... it was
called "More leisure time"
Now it's called "Unemployment"
A BIG portion of Americans are addicted to easy-to-get &
easy-to-eat food and easy-to-acquire material objects that they
don't really need... Consummate consumers
And, more importantly, tons of media crap to divert their
attention and give them something to dream about.
Now... all I care about is: when is that iPhone 6 with a 12 mp
camera coming out?
On 3/24/2013 7:55 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
I've done exactly that, Jan. Someone else suggested that I needed
to do the same kind work closer to home
so I contacted one of the agencies I work with - HOPE
(Helping Other People Effectively) - and they found an "ideal"
family for me to stay with in West Virginia. I spent a week in
a trailer with an obese couple and their seven year old son.
The couple spent the entire week sitting on the couch ordering
things off of Shopping Network on their wide-screen TV, eating
potato chips, drinking Coke and smoking nonstop. The son spent
the entire week sitting in front of his TV playing Nintendo. I
nearly died of asphyxiation from the cigarette smoke. It took
me several trips to Central America to get over the depression
caused by that one project. I can't even stand to look at the
photos today. I'm sure they picked the wrong "ideal" family but
all of the families I've stayed with in Central America were the
hardest working people I've ever seen and were totally focused
on caring for each other and the community.
Tina
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Jan
Faul
<jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Sebastido’s skin is thicker than mine
because of what he shoots. His is almost off the chart.
In my youth, when I was assigned to shoot landscapes
with people in them, my skin was thicker from being sent
places I didn’t know even existed in the USA and
shockingly, they were all pretty close to Washington
DC.
In 2005, I drove through the area
again to see if it was as barren as I recalled, and
sadly, nothing much had changed. You want to shoot poor
people Tina? Go to Appalachia and if you need a
photographer to point you in the right direction, go to
Whitesburg and talk to the folks at Appalshop. It was
started in the 1970’s.
http://appalshop.org/about/
You’ll need a think skin and it
doesn’t matter what color it is. You will probably look
pretty much like everybody else, as most Appalachians
are white.
Jan
On Mar 23, 2013, at 11:20 PM, Alberto Tirado wrote:
I am astounded that nobody mentioned Sebastião
Salgado.
Anyway:
... you have skin as thick as mine,
ROTFL !!!
I swear my first impulse was to print and frame
this.
Carry on.
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Alberto Tirado
Art Faul
The Artist Formerly Known as Prints
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Camera Works - The Washington Post
art for cars: panowraps.com
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Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com
