Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: John Collier <jbcollier@powersurfr.com> > > An Irish wake in a new land > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=176307 > > Though I have been using my cameras a great deal this past year, I have been > avoiding developing my last B&W exposures from early April. Finally on > Christmas day I got up the courage to process, scan and print the film. > Images that had not yet faded from my mind greeted me as the printer snorted > and snuffled its way through the paper. > > My father had past away while I was on my way home so I was not there to > wish him god speed; only a few hours too late. My family and I stayed with > him that night in the hospital and my mother slept one last night with him. > In the morning he was still warm from my mother's closeness. The women of > the family stripped and washed the body and we dressed him in fresh clothes > before the morticians came to take him away. > > I was not sure what the reaction to the prints would be. Tears, yes, but not > despair. I am sure that none of the prints will be displayed but I am also > sure they will be much thumbed through in the decades to come. > > Cameras are strange devices, what you see is certainly not what you get. > > John Collier While intensely personal, John, these photos should be displayed at some point - they are a wonderful example of what documentary photography is - or should be - all about. Just amazing. B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html