black fingernails, et al, was Re: Paper - baby oil Digi Negs

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, jefulton1 wrote:

> Okay, SOME people did this. I remember the 'famed' black fingernails of 
> Amidol users. HOwever, in y now forty
> years of working @ the San Francisco Art Institute in a department founded by 
> Ansel and Minor.....
As I recall (OK, I don't really recall, but I SUSPECT !!) both Ansel and 
Minor died young-ish, even for that time.  And I definitely do recall when 
I went to my first photography workshops in the 1980s, being told that
photographers had a 40% higher cancer rate than the population at large. 
I don't know where that figure came from, but it was given as fact, and 
never contradicted.

J.