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Friday, October 10, 2008
Photography Cut Copy & The Presets - Live at the Hawthorne Theatre, 10/07/08
Posted by Ezra Caraeff on Fri, Oct 10 at 9:00 AM
Cut Copy and The Presets on the same stage? That sounds like a job for our mild mannered photo whiz Minh Tran. Here's like Jimmy Olson by day, and um, Jimmy Olson by night. What can I say? That Olson kid was a great photographer.
THE PRESETS
CUT COPY:
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Blah. Photos of people singing songs on a stage are sooooo boring. Can't photogs justify their free photo passes with a little bit o' text on the scene at the show?
Yeah, Minh, how dare you take absolutely gorgeous, moving shots that make me feel like I was there at the show, and then NOT JUSTIFY the extravagant perk that is your free photo pass with a little bit' o text? Because, you know, that's what photographers are hired to do? Mind-boggling.
Give Minh more credit, Dearestchloe. Most photogs must at least caption their photos.
But I guess what I'm looking for is a little tag-teaming. Send a photog and a writer to the same show. One does pix, the other does text. It's pretty simple. Getting two staffers to agree on seeing the same show is the hard part. Down here at the Eugene Weekly, with a much more limited staff size, we've been able to do this on occasion. Here are just a few...
Brightblack Morning Light:
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/814
Helio Sequence/Menomena:
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/779
Islands/Clap Your Hands Say Yeah:
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/621
Jaguar Love:
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/586
Nas:
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/562
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (well, I took photos, too):
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/529
Hot Chip:
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/505
Cat Power:
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/478
Justice/Diplo:
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/439
Arctic Monkeys:
http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/139
Chuck
To be honest, I doubt we'll change things. In numerous circumstances (like this show, Talib, Santogold, etc.) we don't have both a writer and photographer present at the show. Rather than let Minh's work go unpublished, we think that printing these photos, sans review, offers a worthy visual glimpse of the shows themselves.
Thanks for the comments.
ezra
The photos are definitely juicy 'here's what you missed' tidbits for those not in attendance; memorable keepsakes for those who did attend. We definitely post photos-only blogs when just a photographer attends a show. I guess I've just looked at too many photos of dudes on a stage with a guitar (mostly at Pitchfork), with the photos taken from the same angle below the stage, that I feel sort of jaded and craving more. But, as I've learned from working at an alt-weekly, we're stretched so thin that asking us to "cover" a live show is like asking us to never have a fun time, ever.
Thanks for putting so much energy into End Hits, Ezra & Co. Trust me, I appreciate it.
-Chuck
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