> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts > [...] > > No one could have guessed at the time it was taken that that snapshot of > Anne Frank (which is even more banal than anything Vivian Meyers > took) would have become one of the icons of the 20th century. > Countless other examples exist of photographs turning up of important > people taken before they became famous, from Abraham Lincoln to John > Lennon. Things, places or events that became significant after they were > captured in banal snapshots (the Titanic). Even critical evidence about > important events has turned up retrospectively in what were thought to be > throwaway images. Someone may yet discover an old shoebox of photos > with one that shows the second gunman on the Grassy Knoll (or a photo of > JFK's assassination that clearly shows there > *wasn't* anyone on the Grassy Knoll). >
I found a snapshot in my loft of Abraham Lincoln and John Lennon when they were the house band on the Titanic. In the background you can clearly see that they're sailing past the grassy knoll just as shots ring out. You can also see that one of their groupies is... Anne Frank! On the back it's stamped Photo: Meyers (Chicago). It wasn't very well composed, and I don't think anyone would find it interesting, so I chucked it in the bin. B > I don't see anyone or anything being harmed by people archiving their > mediocre images. One of them may contain the 3rd grade portrait of the guy > who discovered the cure for Aids in the year 2050. And if it doesn't? No skin > off my nose. -- 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.
