Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/04

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Subject: [Leica] 4th of July Rain Images
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Wed Jul 4 21:07:51 2007

Most of the afternoon in New Orleans stayed pretty wet, though I did get a 
few images. There was a lecture today at the DDay Museum on Patton's 
Photograph's - War As He Saw It. Jeff Smith(who bailed on me to eat wet BBQ 
today) reviewed the book on his blog last year - 
http://400tx.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html

Like Jeff says, the reproduction is poor for a $40 book but at least today I 
found out why. Patton's photograph albums are in the Library of Congress and 
the Library charges a good sum for reprints, and for the author scanning 
negatives was going run over $8,000. In the end he had a photographer just 
photograph the photos, which as you can tell in the book had no retouching 
as the photos show water stains and scratches. So at least Patton's 
negatives still exist and maybe one day someone will print some large images 
for display. Patton's Leica resides at Ft Knox.

Only wet images to post so far:

http://www.zoeicaimages.com/html/4thofjuly.html

Chris





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