Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bricks that line the sidewalk around the museum, so far about half a block. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:12 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] 4th of July Rain Images > Is this pavement or a wall? Must be most impressive to see the > endless list in this way. > Thanks for showing, > Philippe > > > Op 5-jul-07, om 07:07 heeft Christopher Williams het volgende > geschreven: > >> Most of the afternoon in New Orleans stayed pretty wet, though I >> did get a few images. There was a lecture today at the DDay Museum >> on Patton's Photograph's - War As He Saw It. Jeff Smith(who bailed >> on me to eat wet BBQ today) reviewed the book on his blog last year >> - http://400tx.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html >> >> Like Jeff says, the reproduction is poor for a $40 book but at >> least today I found out why. Patton's photograph albums are in the >> Library of Congress and the Library charges a good sum for >> reprints, and for the author scanning negatives was going run over >> $8,000. In the end he had a photographer just photograph the >> photos, which as you can tell in the book had no retouching as the >> photos show water stains and scratches. So at least Patton's >> negatives still exist and maybe one day someone will print some >> large images for display. Patton's Leica resides at Ft Knox. >> >> Only wet images to post so far: >> >> http://www.zoeicaimages.com/html/4thofjuly.html >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information