Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice! Thanks for sharing Lluis El 06/12/2011, a las 23:50, Peter Klein escribi?: > My mother-in-law, Ada (right, with pencil) translating at the United > Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1946. > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/6468086051/in/photostream> > > Background: Just before she finished University in Kiev, Ada was > essentially drafted to serve as a translator/interpreter for Ukraine's > delegation to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) at a > conference on postwar reconstruction. She thought she was going for a > couple of weeks. It turned out she was abroad for a year, and worked > in > Geneva, Paris and New York. Once back in the USSR, she was not > permitted > to travel abroad again until the family emigrated to the U.S. in 1979. > > Scanned from an 18x24.5 cm print. Camera unknown. I've done a bit of > curve > adjustment, burning in the flare at right, and repair of the worst > spots > and scratches. Believe me, the irony of my retouching a Soviet > photograph > is not lost on me :-) > > --Peter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information