[AGL] homeless

[Charles Loving]

Library. We have one in Camp Wood but I have more books than it does. I use
Goodwill in Kerrville and the ones I find to get books as well as deal on
Amazon buying books because I learned long ago I forget to take books back
to the library and have been fined more than the book costs. I rented on
VHS tape in my life and I had to buy it later. Never rented a DVD yet or
recorded anything. I can't understand the concept. If you don't have time
to watch it when it is there how can you have time later? I just read books
and paint and draw and of course clear brush. That is a never ending
project and really fun.

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I go to the big library 3 or 4 times a week, just to get out of the
> house, to check out or return DVD movies and the occasional
> book. the library is funded to buy non-fiction books as they are
> published which is a great gift poisonally.
>
> public libraries throught America are magnets for homeless people,
> with public toilets.
>
> however, for the last year of so, there are more homeless than
> in earlier more prosperous years. these are mostly under thirty,
> about 55% black, 45% white, down and out women and men.
> in the last 6 months, cheap bad drugs have a large proportion of
> this population nodding out or sleeping it off on the sidewalks.
> the police/EMS are a not infrequent sight. there are free facilities
> in big cities as there are not out in the country which explains
> why this is a big city phenomenon. the amount of gear they
> carry around is prodigious.
>
> Telejerk recommends a telephoto lens which my handy dandy
> Nikon S3500 lady's purse camera has big-time: wide wide of 25mm
> to a long long 175mm. You can buy 'em on Ebay for around $40.
>
> the death of Robert Capa from getting too close has long been an
> inspiration to me.
>
>
> On 4/16/2017 7:26 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
>
> *I never see any homeless people in the outback. Rock Springs, Uvalde,
> Camp Wood, Marathon, Alpine, Marfa, and even Del Rio. Surely they are here
> or there but they must be invisible. *
>
> *We have a couple of old codgers here, gringos, that wander the streets of
> Camp Wood all day but they will talk to you and do not seem to be totally
> out of it. They just don't have anything to do. One is a retired Coastie
> and he surely gets a check every month. *
>
> *Do the homeless just live in large cities? I saw a few in Corpus Christi
> when I was there a few months ago. *
>
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Frances Morey via Austin-ghetto-list <
> austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net> wrote:
>
>> Yes. But paid models sounds a tad "National Enquirer." I do like the
>> political implications as reportage. To most people the homeless are
>> invisible. It's hard to have empathy with people you can't see.
>> It might be interesting to give them a platform for showing photos they
>> themselves take, selfies or of one another. That makes it more egalitarian.
>> I feel guilty about taking photos of other photographer's works. There is
>> certainly enough mea culpa to go around. Yet I justify it as publicity, or
>> my own critical review, touting photography as art.
>> Best,
>> Frances
>>
>>
>> Here's my favorite sunrise on the Gulf Coast.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, April 15, 2017 9:41 PM, TeleBob <telebob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I would and do think of it differently, and I frame it so.  The image
>> that I capture here is an indictment of the system that helped put you here.
>>
>> Your picture is another bullet for change.
>>
>> Some go for it, some not.
>>
>> Ask Diane Arbus or Vivian Maier about it.
>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 6:40 PM Frances Morey via Austin-ghetto-list <
>> austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net> wrote:
>>
>> I paid "street models" in New Orleans who would dress up in elaborate
>> costumes just for the purpose of being photographed for tips. Yet shooting
>> the homeless seems intrusive and tacky. "May I take a photo of you in your
>> most miserable state of homelessness?--I'll pay you"
>>
>> I love the lyrics from a friend of Mike's who wrote a song, "Welcome to
>> Selena Christi", this snippet is one of my favorite lyrics. Reminds me of a
>> homeless person's sentiment.
>>
>> "I live right here on Primrose,
>> Come on down to visit,
>> I don't charge admission,
>> I'm not an exhibit."
>>
>> Best,
>> Frances
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, April 15, 2017 5:00 PM, TeleBob <telebob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Bull. I offer them money. You have to have a dialog. Couple of bucks a
>> shot, worth it for their cooperation. Otherwise, get a long lens and treat
>> them like wildlife.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 2:57 PM Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> photos taken surreptiitiously. hight of rudeness to go slumming
>> with a camera right in their face - and risking a punch in the face
>>
>> remember what happened to Robert Capa!
>>
>>
>> On 4/15/2017 4:39 PM, TeleBob wrote:
>>
>> Remember what Robert Capa said, "if your pictures are not good enough,
>> it's because you're not close enough."
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 1:42 PM Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 2 views of a group of homeless camped out across the street
>> from the library
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> Charlie Loving
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