Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]please accept my appologies if I am wrong but was Jacob Riis not at the turn of the 19th century (1880-1900) ?? - ruben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Swango" <pswango@att.net> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:27 PM Subject: [Leica] PJ secrets revealed >I just ran across this quote from the autobiography of Jacob Riis, the >Danish immigrant who photographed the NYC slums at the turn of the 20th >century: > > "It is not too much to say that our party carried terror wherever it went. > The flashlight of those days was contained in cartridges fired from a > revolver. The spectacle of half a dozen strange men invading a house in > the midnight hour armed with big pistols which they shot off recklessly > was hardly reassuring, however sugary our speech, and it was not to be > wondered at if the tenants bolted through windows and down fire-escapes > wherever we went." > > This was in "An American Century of Photography" (Abrams, NYC, 1995). > Great book, BTW. It'll take your mind off of which dilution of Xtol to > use, or whether you really _need_ that latest aspherical from Solms. > > Ted and Tina, please tell me you've never broken into someone's home at > midnight with a party of six :)! > > > > > > > > Phil Swango > 307 Aliso Dr. SE > Albuquerque, NM 87108 > 505-262-4085 > 714-908-7846 (fax) > pswango@att.net > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information