Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]greetings dear friends, been somewhat awol the past 6 weeks. had various new crises including a close friend getting diagnosed with glioblastoma. here are 7 pictures from eva zeisel's memorial celebrations. starting -> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/scleroplex/eva_s+mem+svc+1.jpg.html the young lady in this photo is eva's grand-daughter talisman, who is a photographer. http://www.talismanphoto.com/index.php#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=0 eva passed away in december at age 105. the memorial service was yesterday in brooklyn. i drove down and back on saturday. eva zeisel was a great hungarian woman who's life was marked by great respect for the individual and for life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Zeisel here she is at TED 2001 - http://www.ted.com/talks/eva_zeisel_on_the_playful_search_for_beauty.html stalin had her in solitary on death row without conviction for 16 months and she survived. http://www.apublicspace.org/back_issues/issue_14/eva_zeisels_prison_memoir.html thankfully she didn't make it onto any progressive's Kill List, like in this country. her grandchildren read three of her poems at the service. the video of the poems is here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/7326935616/in/photostream and the text of one poem, LIFE, is here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/7327749436/ the bespectacled guy in photo 7 is franz baumann, who represented the Baden-W?rttemberg SPD at the service. eva was the longest surviving member of the party, having joined in 1928 when she was the designer at Schramberger Majolika Fabrik. :-) bharani Bharani Padmanabhan MD PhD Boston, MA