Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't know about other cities, but when people in New Orleans die, it seems every relative takes a photo at a open casket viewing. Maybe it's just the water down here........ Then again, we dance at every funeral. Remember 007's Live and Let Die? Happens alot. Chris Williams New Orleans - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Bennett" Subject: [Leica] Deathbed portraits [was: A scary moment !] > >This Thursday is a visitation for a fellow professor who died last week > >(lung cancer, age 60). I had thought about taking a camera to the > >visitation for a last image of him, but the idea of that is quite > >appalling. Have you ever seen anyone with a camera at a wake or visitation? > >Jeffery > > > Well, it ain't photographic, but there is a wonderful deathbed portrait of > Monet's lover Camille, painted by the man himself at her bedside as she lay > dying. His friends would later referr to him as "only an eye." > > Guy > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html