Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] Mozart's Widow? Maybe Not.
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Jul 13 11:23:01 2006
References: <20060712141309.32087.qmail@web32006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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
>
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Replies: Reply from lmc at interlink.es (Luis Miguel Castañeda) ([Leica] Mozart's Widow? Maybe Not.)
In reply to: Message from profmason at yahoo.com (John Mason) ([Leica] Mozart's Widow? Maybe Not.)