> > From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/10/13 Mon AM 12:07:13 GMT > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history > > > > > > > Perhaps it's not OT regarding photography, but there's no Pentax > > > content: > > > > > > http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/10/thank_you_for_smoking.html > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/4qun6c > > > > > > I hate revisionist history, even if old practices are now > > officially > > > frowned > > > upon. If the picture was no good in its original form then they > > > shouldn't > > > have used it at all. > > > > > > regards, Anthony Farr > > > > > > 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. > > > > Or maybe he left it at the crossroads... > > According to the correspondence lower down, that's the only known > photograph of Robert Johnson. The stamp looks like a photo but maybe, > like the Bette Davis picture, it's a painting or something - looks > like it to me anyway.
Not correct. The one shown is not even the better known one. This is. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/RobertJohson.png > > It's strange how quickly attitudes to smoking have changed. I gave up > over 15 years ago, after smoking for about 20. A few days ago I > mentioned in passing something about smoking at my desk to one of my > younger colleagues and he was aghast at the thought of people smoking > in the office. He didn't know it had ever been legal, let alone > normal, but if I left work without a medium-sized Alp of fag-ends in > my ashtray I felt as though I hadn't been trying hard enough. Now it > already feels strange being in countries where smoking is allowed in > public places such as bars and restaurants. > > When they make stamps of Keith Richard I wonder if they'll airbrush > the cigarette out of his machine head. > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
