[Leica] Deathbed portraits [was: A scary moment !]

[Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>]

>This Thursday is a visitation for a fellow professor who died last week
>(lung cancer, age 60). I had thought about taking a camera to the
>visitation for a last image of him, but the idea of that is quite
>appalling. Have you ever seen anyone with a camera at a wake or visitation?
>Jeffery


Well, it ain't photographic, but there is a wonderful deathbed portrait of
Monet's lover Camille, painted by the man himself at her bedside as she lay
dying. His friends would later referr to him as "only an eye."

Guy
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