Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Go to http://www.a-day-in-our-life.com/ then click on Personal Favorites and look at the first image.... and Brian, I think, posted some absolutely stunning deathbed photos a while back. The one thing I would stress is that you ASK before shooting under such circumstances. B. D. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:45 PM Subject: [Leica] Deathbed portraits [was: A scary moment !] > >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 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html