Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As I said, she was just too ugly to have been Wolfie's :-) Op 12-jul-06, om 16:13 heeft John Mason het volgende geschreven: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >