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
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Re: list discussions
2003-05-22 by tomoc
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