Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Claes Bjerner wrote: > > Eric wrote: > > Actually, it was at least in part abuse of alcohol and amphetamines that > > killed him. Although it was a fall in a convenience store while picking up > > some cat food that finally killed him. > snip > Claes I saw a wide angle shot of Smith in his darkroom very cluttered and the caption reading a quote from him saying all he needed to make a Smith print was a bottle of Scotch and all night in the darkroom. In my minds eye I picture the bottle of Scotch there right next to his enlarger but that might have been the power of the suggestion on the part of the quote. It sure rang a bell with me! I also thought if I was up all night with one neg and a bottle of scotch I would tend to print down too. That's darkroom work the longer I spend on a neg the darker it gets. The next day with dry down blues the final print is not the last one pulled. Mark Rabiner