From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 12/12/02-08:41:52 PM Z
We really need to take this Urban Legend thread back to picture taking.
OK, so I am standing in line at the grocery store check-out lane
today and see this tabloid headline that says, "Alligators in the
Sewers of New York." Being from Louisiana and having had to deal as
a kid with alligators in the back yard that wandered in from a nearby
bayou (and various versions of poisonous snakes to, I might add) my
first reaction was to think, wow, wonder what kind of lighting
equipment one would need for that kind of work? Maybe some of you
city street photographers could offer a suggestion?
Then I thought about process. Anyone ever seen a bromoil or gum print
of an alligator? Now, dead birds and dead fish I have seen but
alligators? But really, is there any rule that says the alligator can
not be treated as a pictorial subject? I personally figure this would
have to be a carbon to capture all that beautiful skin texture, but
maybe a nice green gum over cyanotype might work?
Now don't tell me that story about the alligators in the sewers of
New York is only an urban legend?
Wow, got to chew some more on that cactus stalk!
Sandy King
PS: No offense meant to anyone, including but not limited to the
following entities: city street photographers, cyanotype, carbon,
gum, and bromoil printers, people from Louisiana (who really know
alligators and snakes when they see them), pictorial photographers,
people from other states who may live near or on bayous, readers of
tabloids, citizens of New York (who may or may not recognize
alligators and snakes when they see them), snake and alligator
lovers, snake and alligator haters, photographers who hate texture,
and last but not least, cactus stalk chewers.
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