Digital BW, The Print

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

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

Fabulous quote, James!  I too have been a lurker off and on (in my
case for quite some time).  It's great to have something humorous to
chew on now and then.  Thanks for not being a purveyor of high flown
rhapsodies! I do appreciate both, though - otherwise I wouldn't have
been such a longterm lurker.  I just get weary of not having anything
much to say while I slowly get used to technologies for which I don't
quite have adequate time.
Chris
--- 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