Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Impressive series of an impressive person, Bharani. On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 6:57 PM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Bob Adler Redwood City, CA http://www.rgaphoto.com