Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/23

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Subject: [Leica] The lower 9th ward
From: aaron.sandler at duke.edu (Aaron Sandler)
Date: Mon Jan 23 17:58:18 2006
References: <8BBD635B-5432-4566-B3E7-DFBE950ACF22@cox.net> <000001c62083$4545ba40$656c0e44@newukolbqveo9i> <9b678e0601231733i614a950ep859d6ed8157adf87@mail.gmail.com>

Hear hear.  These two you've shown tonight are powerful images...in 
context, with others, they will be very important.

Not easy, but important.

Best,
Aaron


>Jeffery,
>Images like this are exactly why folks like you should be taking lots of
>images.  Ten years from now, whatever happens there, we will have forgotten
>what was there.  A visual record, widely dispersed prevents revisionism.
>Eisenhower commisioned massive documentation of the camps in Germany so that
>no one could ever say that what happened, never happened.
>
>Don
>don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
>On 1/23/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Here is one of the early scans (I didn't tweak it much, so it is a bit
> > dark).
> >
> > http://www.400tx.com/CarandBarge.html
> >
> > As you can see, this no longer resembles a neighborhood. Things look
> > pretty
> > much as they did in September except for the clearing of roads to make
> > them
> > passable. The thing in the background that looks like a 2-story building
> > is
> > the barge that went through the levee.
> >
> > Jeffery Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> > http://www.400tx.com


In reply to: Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] the lower 9th ward... etc)
Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] The lower 9th ward)
Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] The lower 9th ward)