Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/07

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Re: I commend to your attention
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:19:30 -0600 (Central Standard Time)

On Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:58:21 -0600 "SonC (Sonny Carter)" 
<sonc@sonc.com> wrote:

> 
> Guess what?  The vast majority  of researcher's requests go right past
> the pro stuff, and want to see snaps of people, how the village looked
> in 1927, and stuff like that.
> 
> In the 1930's one woman got all of her friends to bring their
> home-made quilts to her home.  They hung them on the clothesline and
> took pictures of them.   Simple idea, huh?  Dumb subject?  Those pics
> are on our high request list, and have been featured in three national
> publications in the last two years.
> 
Hi, Sonny....yeah, I'm not surprised...I've been asked dozens of times 
over the years to copy/restore/reprint vintage "snapshots",, once a THOUSAND at 
one time!!!......but I've never been asked to copy and archive any "art"...outside 
of work, of course (since that's what we "DO" here...!!!)
Walt


- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html