Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Is this pavement or a wall? Must be most impressive to see the endless list in this way. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 5-jul-07, om 07:07 heeft Christopher Williams het volgende geschreven: > Most of the afternoon in New Orleans stayed pretty wet, though I > did get a few images. There was a lecture today at the DDay Museum > on Patton's Photograph's - War As He Saw It. Jeff Smith(who bailed > on me to eat wet BBQ today) reviewed the book on his blog last year > - http://400tx.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html > > Like Jeff says, the reproduction is poor for a $40 book but at > least today I found out why. Patton's photograph albums are in the > Library of Congress and the Library charges a good sum for > reprints, and for the author scanning negatives was going run over > $8,000. In the end he had a photographer just photograph the > photos, which as you can tell in the book had no retouching as the > photos show water stains and scratches. So at least Patton's > negatives still exist and maybe one day someone will print some > large images for display. Patton's Leica resides at Ft Knox. > > Only wet images to post so far: > > http://www.zoeicaimages.com/html/4thofjuly.html > > Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >