Reenactors, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Once up on a time I received a grant to help offset the cost of learning how to make platinum prints. Living in the American South one of the subjects readily available to photograph with a large wooden camera are Civil War reenactments. Walking around a reenactment site with a large wooden camera was considered normal by the reenactors. Once I was outfitted in period garb, I was all but invisible. It took very little persuasion to let reenactors “portray their likeness” with my photographic machine.
In photographing one couple, the first pose the soldier held his rifle in his right hand. His wife said, “Don’t take the photo yet, I don’t want the gun between us.” He moved the rifle to the other hand and I made the photograph.
I wondered, how often a woman said that to her soldier husband.
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