[Leica] IMGS: France

[Philippe]

> Le 9 janv. 2018 à 20:40, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out, Philippe.  I have the slide filed under
> France but you are right, the signs are German!  Are there places in France
> that speak German?

Speak yes, Alsace where I live certainly does. Write, no, at least not to that extent.

>  I'll try to figure out where that is and change it.
> 
> The archival ones are mainly for stock.  The French textbook people are
> mainly interested in landmarks and monuments, but you never know!  It's
> always the ones I least imagine will sell that do.
> 

Of course, it all depends on their own mental representations of the country and its folks :-)

Amities
Philippe


> Tina
> 
> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Lovely photos Tina - mainly the monuments (Mt St Michel, Azay le Rideau,
>> etc).
>> 
>> However I’m unsure they represent contemporary France (trains, cars,
>> clothes, etc) and may lead kids learning by means of this method, to think
>> we are definitely late in many games, and so passés … just as if I was made
>> to believe that Tom can now live without a pink cap ;-)
>> 
>> Also I spotted this one, sold for Italy when the shop signs are in German
>> … Switzerland perhaps? Austria?
>> https://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/France/G0000B6qF.Dx.7Q0/
>> I0000XDQUSPDDam4
>> 
>> 
>> Amities
>> Philippe
>> 
>> 
>>> Le 9 janv. 2018 à 14:59, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> PESO:
>>> 
>>> I was in the middle of scanning Italy when I got a request for photos
>> for a
>>> French textbook so I started skimming a few of France to scan:
>>> 
>>> https://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery/France/G0000B6qF.Dx.7Q0/
>>> 
>>> Some are over-the-top stock photos, some just travel photos, some are
>>> family memories.  All are with a Leica M3 that I bought on that trip in
>>> 1976 and all are Kodachromes.
>>> 
>>> C&C greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
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