Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] funerals
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:28:11 -0500
References: <20010129180316.1552610B7@smtpgate.gannett.com>

"Zeissler, Mitch" wrote:
> 
> <Shudder>
> 
> That's about the same image I was confronted with recently when my 79 year
> old father-in-law was hospitalized with pneumonia [the same generous soul
> that gave me my Leicas].  Since things were very grim, I took the M3 and
> Noct, but upon seeing just how bad he looked, I refrained from taking any
> pictures at all.  Later, my wife said she was glad I hadn't taken any shots
> of him looking that way.
> 
> Fortunately, he is now on the road to recovery.
> 
> /Mitch Zeissler
Lee - Nana's Hand is one truly fantastic photograph. Producing images
such as that is what photography is all about. Terrific. Wonderful.
Upsetting. Disturbing. Graphic. Great.

B. D.


> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001  11:49:24 -0800
> From: Lee Bacchus <lbacchus@home.com>
> Subject: [Leica] funerals
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> while visiting my 97-year-old grandmother in her dimly lit nursing home. As
> she was into her final weeks I felt some moral queasiness about the whole
> thing but shot anyway. The result
> (http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=150404&size=lg )
> was something a bit spooky and for sure it does not hang on my wall.
> 
> Lee Bacchus
> Vancouver

In reply to: Message from "Zeissler, Mitch" <mzeissle@gcipoa.gannett.com> (RE: [Leica] funerals)