Re: [Leica] Making a difference

[Marshall Hunt <huntmc2@fuse.net>]

right

Derek Zeanah wrote:
> 
> My wife is a little more than a year away from her M.D.  I asked her to look
> at this series of images as they looked fake to me, but she verified that
> that's the way it is.  People who seriously abuse themselves really *can*
> look that bad that early in life.  She's got a patient right now who's 41
> but who looks 65.  She says in the psych unit (the rotation she's on now)
> there's no way to tell the age of a patient just by looking at them if they
> have a history of alcohol or drug abuse.
> 
> Just in case someone else out there was as skeptical as I was.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Paul
> Chefurka
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 3:56 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Making a difference
> 
> On Sat, 5 May 2001 15:52:43 +0100 , leica@davidmorton.org wrote:
> 
> >Coincidentally a friend mailed me this link today:
> >
> >http://www.hollywoodpolice.org/VIN_CAT/pic79_11.htm
> >
> >These ten photographs are not great art, they're not even great
> photography.
> >Yet in their stark, simple awfulness they tell a story so tragic and heart
> >rending that I found it hard to keep clicking the next button.
> 
> That is an extremely difficult sequence of photos to look at.  It
> brings home the ravages of life in the urban desert better than
> anything I've seen in a long while.  The Internet never ceases to
> amaze me.  Thanks for posting the link.
> 
> Paul