Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/26

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Subject: [Leica] PJ secrets revealed
From: bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)
Date: Wed Jan 26 10:34:18 2005
References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050126084654.01d34cc0@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>

1880-1900 IS the turn of the 20th century.

-dan c.

At 06:43 PM 26-01-05 +0100, Ruben wrote:
>please accept my appologies if I am wrong but was Jacob Riis not at the 
>turn 
>of the 19th century (1880-1900) ?? - ruben
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Phil Swango" <pswango@att.net>
>To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:27 PM
>Subject: [Leica] PJ secrets revealed
>
>
>>I just ran across this quote from the autobiography of Jacob Riis, the 
>>Danish immigrant who photographed the NYC slums at the turn of the 20th 
>>century:
>>
>> "It is not too much to say that our party carried terror wherever it 
>> went. 
>> The flashlight of those days was contained in cartridges fired from a 
>> revolver.  The spectacle of half a dozen strange men invading a house in 
>> the midnight hour armed with big pistols which they shot off recklessly 
>> was hardly reassuring, however sugary our speech, and it was not to be 
>> wondered at if the tenants bolted through windows and down fire-escapes 
>> wherever we went."
>>
>> This was in "An American Century of Photography" (Abrams, NYC, 1995). 
>> Great book, BTW.  It'll take your mind off of which dilution of Xtol to 
>> use, or whether you really _need_ that latest aspherical from Solms.
>>
>> Ted and Tina, please tell me you've never broken into someone's home at 
>> midnight with a party of six :)!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Phil Swango
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