Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/23
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Interesting tidbit in the Saturday London Times.
Seems the London Daily Mail has installed a bust of
their founder in their HO off Kensington High Street
(just a few blocks from where Nathan and I spent
Thursday evening "soaking up" British culture.)
The sculptor apparently worked from photographs taken
during the 70s, when the founder sported a rather
unfashionable (for today) hair style.
So, The Times wanted to get a photograph of the statue
to poke some fun at The Daily Mail.
They asked politely for a photo, and were refused.
They sent a press photographer, and he was escorted
out. So the Diary columnist sent his assistant with a
PHD camera ("push here, dummy") and she got one frame
before being asked to leave. Which is all they needed.
As the writer notes - in reference to the Daily Mail's
royal-paparazzi - "How strange it feels to publish a
grainy photo, taken without permission, of something
*inside* the Daily Mail".
Steve Patriquen
London
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