Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Cardish wrote: > > By the way, the famous photo of the mother bathing her mercury poisoned > daughter from Minamata has been withdrawn from circulation. It seems that > the widow of Smith gave the copyright of the photo to the mother, who has > decided that she no longer wishes to see the photo in any new publications, > She has even made a general request that galleries stop displaying the photo. > > >From an article in the June/July issue of Camera Arts by Jim Hughes. > > Dan C. > ><Snip> ON a side issue this is the image i always refer to in discussions with natural light worshippers or flash discussions in general as it is thought of as being a great example of a natural light photo while he actually had used several battery powered strobes. This I got from a better camera magazine ten or twenty years ago. A mural sized version of that print was up at my school for a traveling photographic show and i used to pass it everyday without NOT looking at it! Mark Rabiner