Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/26/00 4:31:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing..." Well, THAT one is sure hard to argue with. There probably are more people regularly taking photos than there are having sex and dancing. And, obviously, this is simply her in-your-face way of noting how ubiquitous photography had become when she wrote the book. >> Of course, those were the pre-HIV 70's. As noted, the ratio seems to have been adjusted since then, in favor of recreational photography, as compared with the other named "amusements". Joe Sobel