Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last week the BBC reported that a photo of Constanze Mozart had surfaced: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5157200.stm> Well, maybe not: <http://www.soundsandfury.com/soundsandfury/2006/07/and_the_mystery.html> <http://tinyurl.com/hnkn6> The author of a biography of Contanze says that she was too infirm, at the time, to have travelled to the place the photo was made. A professor of musicology claims that the photo in question simply could not have been made in 1840, due to the limitations of photo technology at the time. I'll be interested to hear what those of you who know more about photo history than I have to say about the latter point. --John J Mason Charlottesville, Virginia DEMOCRACY OF SPEED, a Photo Documentary Project: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/john-m/john-m.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com