About the Robert Johnson picture.... The blog post that claimed there to be only one ever photograph of Johnson is wrong, there are two confirmed photographs, this one and the one that Anne pointed to, and there is a third unconfirmed photograph that was more recently discovered "at (a) swap meet digging through a photo album of old south delta type photos": http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/long_lost_third.html
As to the alterations between the cigarette smoking Johnson against a sheet compared to the smoke free Johnson against the weatherboards, whose guitar neck is nearer and steeper.... what is your point, Joseph? The work involved to make these changes is trivial, and producing a postage stamp is not a trivial job. I think they'd make the effort. Here is an illustration I made of the postage stamp images of Robert Johnson and Bette Davis, which matches them to the images they were derived from: http://picasaweb.google.com/FarrAnthony/Illustrations#5256802623552356754 But don't take my word, here's the NY Times take on it the topic: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE2D91F30F934A15753C1A9609 58260 BTW, the US Postal Service aren't the only cigarette censorers: http://g.sheetmusicplus.com/Look-Inside/covers/5449537.jpg Just so you know, I'm not a smoking defender. I'm a political correctness hater. regards, Anthony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Joseph McAllister > Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2008 5:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history > > > On Oct 13, 2008, at 08:10 , Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > BTW the Robert Johnson portrait is without a doubt the same picture > > that has > > been massaged so that it fits better onto a postage stamp. > > > > Regards, Anthony > > > You obviously missed my post on this image, Tony. > > >> Different background, different angle on guitar neck, > >> different chord > >> fingering on the guitar, shirt open at the top, not closed. Possible > > > >> in Photoshop, but that's a lot to do, even for a stamp. Maybe > >> the guy > >> moved for the photographer to a different place nearby and put down > > > >> the butt. Just as plausible. > > As far as the Kruschev photo that was referenced, I had never seen it > from that angle before, and a google search indicates that the image > in question was doctored. The original just shows a raised open fist. > However, the whole incident was televised and recorded by the media, > and probably by several United Nations photographers. It was most > certainly not a 'fake' staged or doctored event. > > > Joseph McAllister > Pentaxian > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
