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Subject: [Leica] eva zeisel memorial celebration
From: topoxforddoc at btinternet.com (Charlie Chan)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:37:24 +0100
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Bharani,

Thank you for showing this series. Some private moments of reflection on a 
wonderful and at times challenging life.

Best wishes,

Charlie

Charlie Chan
www.charlie-chan.co.uk



On 4 Jun 2012, at 03:22, Robert Adler wrote:

> 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
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bob Adler
> Redwood City, CA
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