Re: [Leica] Not the Mall

["Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>]

Odd that they'd put up a bust of their founder and then be too ashamed of it to
let anyone photograph it.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Patriquen" <patriquen@yahoo.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 12:20
Subject: [Leica] Not the Mall


> 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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