Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Guns'n us



My gallery is hosting a group photography show "Guns'N Us" on the theme of "the impact of the availability of firearms on the social fabric", opening on December 6.

Featured photographers are: Kyle Cassidy, Andre Lambertson, Donna De Cesare, and Frank Relle.

You should find it to be curated in a very even-handed fashion and all of you second amendment nuts are invited. (Don't miss the comments under Kyle's images).

11 comments:

Tecumseh said...

I don't have a gun -- indeed, I never held a gun in my hand, would not even know how to fire one -- but I don't understand the Left's fixation with killing the Second Amendment. Isn't this the motivating force behind this exhibit?

Pepe le Pew said...

No - I wish I could but me against the NRA ??? The idea is just to display some of the corollaries of what is regarded as a fundamental right.

Mr roT said...

Guns are good. Jesus was a collector.

Tecumseh said...

Ah, forget about guns. I looked at some of those photographs -- clearly, the best are those by Frank Relle. Those Nawlins houses are simply spectacular -- well, at least in his rendition (surely, they must look much crappier in real life, yes?) Hats off!

Pepe le Pew said...

Franks' are amazing. They are all murder scenes though.

Tecumseh said...

Murder scenes? How come? Those houses look peaceful enough to me, though the lighting is eerie.

The Darkroom said...

The ones in the show are. Not all the ones on his site.

My Frontier Thesis said...

Nice montages and galleries, Pepe. Pass it along.

Out here in the Dakotas, guns are often looked at as another tool: for example, to hunt deer with, or shoot ducks or geese with. The inanimate power locked up in them, though, are something of an awe: such an effective and efficient killing device, and this is its simultaneous strength and weakness. Sometimes I figure a REAL deer hunter would be able to drop out of a tree onto a deer below, and bludgeon and bleed it to death with a large stone and pointy stick. Now THAT would be hunting.

Pepe le Pew said...

mft - y'all hunt deer with a 45 ? kewl.

Mr roT said...

Relle is fantastic. Those live oaks at night are outstanding.

Is he always a little off focus un purpose or is it just very very difficult do prevent the camera moving for the long night exposures?

Pepe le Pew said...

b/ is likely but only he knows. not sure i'd want to ask.