Digital BW, The Print

It's really great that we can get all jazzed up like this, isn't it?

The list has some provocative contributers and some provocateurs 
making for a lively intelligent (generally) mix and discussion.

Quit lurking...join in...bring us more wonderful quotes like that!!!

cheers,

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, James Zall 
<jzall@r...> wrote:
> Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, writing about the members of the London
> Photographic Society, in 1857:
> 
> "The very talk of these photographic members is unlike that of any 
other
> men, either of business or pleasure. Their style is made up of the 
driest
> facts, the longest words, the most high-flown rhapsodies. Slight
> improvements in processes, and slight varieties in conclusions, are
> discussed as if they involved the welfare of mankind. They seek each
> other's sympathy, and they resent each other's interference, with 
an ardour
> of expression at variance with all the sobrieties of business and 
the
> habits of reserve..."
> 
> [from Classic Essays on Photography, ed. by Alan Trachtenberg]
> 
> 
> I've learned a lot from the people on this list. Thanks.
> 
> Jim Zall
> lurker