Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Original messages: >While the ad on the side of the building shows scotch whisky (Cutty Sark) >back then, implying more discriminatory tastes, the later shot has beer ads >(Busch & Guinness) implying a slippage in the local demographic. Then you >look again and see the new balconies - gentification surely. It's a >comparison of eras that nonplusses.... >Douglas >I love the variety of different beers from the early shot, replaced by international brands in the modern. I remember all those great varieties in the >German-dense regions that are now gone. Not Milwaukee for me, but Cincinnati had many as well. >Fascinating what the unintended backgrounds of our images can reveal, isn?t it? >Thank you! >Adam ================================================================================================================= Thanks, Douglas and Adam. I'm enjoying checking out the details in the old photos too. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt