Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] RE: [Leica] Re: Père Lachaise
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:55:27 -0000

Jim Morrison is, Karl is in Highgate cemetery in London.

But it's not just the famous people, it's the amazing monuments that some of
them left behind - Oscar Wilde has a new monument, but unfortunately someone
has stolen its penis.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Nathan
Wajsman
Sent: 04 January 2002 06:06
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: Père Lachaise


As far as I remember, many famous people, e.g. Karl Marx and more
importantly
Jim Morrison, are buried there.

Nathan

Steve Unsworth wrote:

> Sorry, I mis-spelled it, it Père Lachaise, it's in Paris at the junction
of
> métro lines 2 and 3. It's a huge cemetery originally 'created' in the
middle
> of the last century. There is some amazing funerary architecture. I'm
> considering using it as the basis of a photo project. I was there on
> Tuesday, stayed two hours and shot 5 rolls of films and haven't even
_begun_
> to scratch the surface of the place. I would have stayed longer but it was
> bitterly cold.

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Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland

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