Kyle Cassidy

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Cassidy's "Photo-a-Week" project{{cite web|url=http://www.400tx.com/joinpaw.html|title= Join PAW|access-date=June 23, 2008}} lets viewers into his life on a weekly basis starting on January 1, 2000.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

His photographic style involves flights of fancy and a sense of humor. Laws of nature are applied inconsistently; people and objects are often levitating, and non sequiturs, whimsy, and cryptozoological intrusions are common. "I think the world in my photographs is a lot darker in many ways than the real world that people insulate themselves in, but it's also a lot funnier. My world is malevolent but humorous, as opposed to the real world which is malevolent and relentless, but is often packaged in a friendly box and rabbit ears," he said in a 2004 interview with A.D. Amorosi in the October issue of Art Matters. His images often explore themes of "truth" and "fiction". This culminated in his July 2006 show "Lies" at the Sol gallery in Philadelphia. "Photography," he says in the artist's statement for that show "is about lies just as much as it is about the truth."{{cite web|url=http://www.kylecassidy.com/sol/about.html|title=About Lies|access-date=June 23, 2008|last=Cassidy|first= Kyle}}

His work with cutters and homeless orphans presaged his 2004 fascination with American gun owners which led to the book, Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes,{{cite book|last=Cassidy|first=Kyle|year=2007|title=Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes|publisher=Krause Publications|isbn=978-0-89689-543-0}} which provided a view into the lives of a controversial culture, praised by advocates of both gun control and gun ownership. It was named by Amazon as both one of the ten best art books of 2007,"[https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_5832602_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000158341&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=1QZ2FYZP212HXFV1H4S4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=324156301&pf_rd_i=383166011 Best Books of 2007: Top 10 Editors' Picks: Arts & Photography]". Amazon.com; accessed April 5, 2010. and as one of the 100 best books of 2007.[https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=br_lf_m_1000158311_pglink_next?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000158311&plpage=3 "Best Books of 2007: Editors' Top 100"], Amazon.com (page 3); accessed April 5, 2010.

Cassidy's approach to shooting portraits has resulted in book covers and album art. His portraits are often shot in context,[http://www.whereiwrite.org/ writers at work][http://www.armedamerica.org/ gun owners in their homes] but in the early days of Occupy Wall Street he set up mini-portrait studios at both the NYC and Philly protests, to remove the context and focus on the individuality of the people attending. The photos were published at The Huffington Post.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-faces_n_1015900.html Occupy Wall Street], huffingtonpost.com, October 17, 2011. He hung a show of the Occupy shots at the Bluestocking Gallery{{Cite web|url=https://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/680622.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120040704/http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/680622.html|url-status=dead|title=Comments|date=November 10, 2011|archive-date=January 20, 2012}} in Manhattan. In another project, he took photographs of the scientists responsible for the discoveries of the New Horizons probe.{{cite web|last=Teicher |first=Jordan G. |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/07/20/kyle_cassidy_photographs_the_new_horizons_science_team.html |title=Kyle Cassidy photographs the New Horizons science team |publisher=Slate.com |date=July 20, 2015 |access-date=June 11, 2017}}

In 2012, Cassidy released War Paint: Tattoo Culture & the Armed Forces, a book of photographs and interviews with tattooed veteran soldiers.{{cite news|author=Cassidy, Kyle|title=War Paint: The Intimate Stories Behind Military Veterans' Tattoos|url=http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/158631305.html#ixzz2VdOKHlcm|newspaper=Philadelphia Weekly|date=June 13, 2012|access-date=June 8, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20120617170539/http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/cover-story/158631305.html#ixzz2VdOKHlcm|archive-date=June 17, 2012}}

In 2013, he became involved with the North Dakota Man Camp Project, a project to document the lives of oil workers in the area around the Bakken formation.{{cite news|url=http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/179522|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005000829/http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/179522/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 5, 2013|title=UND: Life in the man camps|author=Dalrymple, Amy|newspaper=The Jamestown Sun|date=February 11, 2013|access-date=June 8, 2013}} Photos from the project appeared in a Slate.com photo essay{{cite web|last=Teicher |first=Jordan G. |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/03/14/kyle_cassidy_photographs_the_homes_of_oil_workers_in_north_dakota_in_the.html |title=Kyle Cassidy photographs the homes of oil workers in North Dakota in The Bakken Goes Boom |publisher=Slate.com |date=March 14, 2016 |access-date=June 11, 2017}} and the open access edited collection The Bakken Goes Boom: Oil and the Changing Geographies of Western North Dakota, published by The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.Caraher, William, and Kyle Conway, eds. (2016). The Bakken Goes Boom. Grand Forks, North Dakota: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota.

In October 2013, his poster and photo for the Curio Theatre Company{{Cite web |url=http://www.curiotheatre.org/ |title=Curio Theatre Company|access-date=October 13, 2019}}'s production of Romeo and Juliet{{cite web|url=http://www.curiotheatre.org/romeo-and-juliet.html|title=Romeo and Juliet |work=Curiotheatre.org|access-date=October 4, 2013}} led to an interview published in The New York Times.{{cite news|url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/theater/behind-the-poster-romeo-and-juliet.html|title=Maximum Shakespeare, Behind the Poster: Romeo and Juliet|author=Erik Piepenburg|publisher=The New York Times Company|date=October 4, 2013|access-date=October 4, 2013|quote=Curio enlisted two local artists — the painter Elizabeth Gallagher and the photographer Kyle Cassidy — to design promotional artwork for the show. Ms. Gallagher, a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the daughter of Aetna Gallagher, a founding member of the company, created a colorfully feminine illustration featuring two women dressed in period gowns and holding hands. Mr. Cassidy took a darker route with his image of two underwear-clad women cuddled in bed and surrounded by candles and a gun.}}

In 2014, Cassidy's photo essay, "This Is What a Librarian Looks Like", based on photographs taken at an American Library Association event, was published on Slate.com.Teicher, Jordan G. (February 21, 2014). "[http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/02/11/kyle_cassidy_photographs_librarians_at_the_american_library_association.html This Is What a Librarian Looks Like]", Slate.com; accessed December 26, 2016. He continued to photograph librarians and libraries in the following years, culminating in the publication of a 2017 photobook, This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information.[https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kyle-cassidy/this-is-what-a-librarian-looks-like/9780316393980 "This Is What a Librarian Looks Like"], Hachette Book Group; accessed December 26, 2016.

In 1993 Cassidy wrote SATURN: A Beginners Guide to Using the Internet, followed by Stickman's Way Cool Guide to Network Wizardry. Cassidy published two additional technology books, The Concise Guide to Enterprise Internetworking and Security and Introduction to Windows 2000 Network Administration. He co-wrote the paper "Can You Trust Your Email?" in 1993, warning of a flaw in the protocol used to deliver email, which could allow information to be forged.{{cite tech report |author1=Kyle Cassidy |author2=A. Michael Berman Ph.D. |year=1993 |title=Can You Trust Your Email? |url=http://www.rowan.edu/colleges/las/departments/computerscience/research/reports/TR1995-1.pdf |access-date=June 23, 2008}}

He has written books on information technology, as well as working as contributing editor for Videomaker Magazine. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Barron's Magazine, Photographers Forum, The Huffington Post, Asleep by Dawn, Gothic Beauty and numerous other

publications.{{Cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Kyle-Cassidy/e/B001JSAK5W |title=Profile for Kyle Cassidy |work=Amazon.com |access-date=October 13, 2019}}{{cite journal|last=Wells|first=Steven|date=August 1, 2007|title=Friendly Fire|journal=Philadelphia Weekly|url=http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/15142/cover-story|access-date=May 25, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529192706/http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/15142/cover-story|archive-date=May 29, 2012}}

His works include:

• Cassidy, Kyle (2017). This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information. New York: Hachette Book Group. {{ISBN|9780316393980}}
• {{cite book|author=Cassidy, Kyle|title=War Paint: Tattoo Culture & the Armed Forces|year=2012|publisher=Schiffer Publishing|isbn=978-0-7643-4086-4}}
• {{cite book|author1=Amanda Palmer|author1-link=Amanda Palmer|author2=Neil Gaiman|author2-link=Neil Gaiman|author3=Kyle Cassidy|author4=Beth Hommel|year=2009|title=Who Killed Amanda Palmer: A Collection of Photographic Evidence|publisher=Eight Foot Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-615-23439-7}}
• {{cite book|last=Cassidy|first=Kyle|year=2007|title=Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes|publisher=Krause Publications|isbn=978-0-89689-543-0|title-link=Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes}}
• {{cite book|last=Cassidy|first=Kyle|year=2001|title=Introduction to Windows 2000 Network Administration|publisher=Que Publishing|isbn=0-7897-2419-7}}
• {{cite book|last=Cassidy|first=Kyle|author2=Dries, Joseph Francis III|year=2000|title=The Concise Guide to Enterprise Internetworking and Security|publisher=Que Publishing|isbn=978-0-7897-2420-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Cassidy|first=Kyle|year=1994|title=Stickman's Way Cool Guide to Network Wizardry|publisher=Rowan College Academic Computing Press|location=Glassboro, NJ}}{{ISBN needed}}
• {{cite book|last=Cassidy|first=Kyle|year=1994|title=SATURN: A Beginners Guide To Using the Internet|publisher=Rowan College Academic Computing Press|location=Glassboro, NJ}}{{ISBN needed}}

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• {{cite journal|last=Eifling|first=Sam|date=May 2008|title=Moving Targets|journal=ESPN Book Review|url=https://www.espn.com/outdoors/general/news/story?page=ArmedAmerica|access-date=May 25, 2008}}
• {{cite web|url=http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com|title=Cassidy Blog|access-date=May 25, 2008|last=Cassidy|first=Kyle|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012000241/http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/|archive-date=October 12, 2009}}
• {{cite web|url=http://www.rossbender.org/cassidy.html|title=The Fabulous Kyle Cassidy Tribute Page|access-date=May 25, 2008|last=Bender|first=Ross|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123065923/http://rossbender.org/cassidy.html|archive-date=January 23, 2009|url-status=dead}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110325140923/http://www.interstitialarts.org/wordpress/?p=405 Interstitiality within Photography: an interview with Kyle Cassidy], interstitialarts.org; accessed June 11, 2017.
• "[http://blog.leica-camera.com/interviews/kyle-cassidy-the-unpredictable-eye-part-1 Kyle Cassidy: The Unpredictable Eye: Part 1]". The Leica Camera Blog (January 21, 2011).
• "[http://blog.leica-camera.com/interviews/kyle-cassidy-the-unpredictable-eye-part-2 Kyle Cassidy: The Unpredictable Eye: Part 2]". The Leica Camera Blog (February 5, 2011).

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