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



White was 68 when he croaked and Adams was 82. The average life span has risen dramatically in the last century, but rests at around the upper sixties nowadays. Keep on truckin' Judy.

Judy Seigel wrote:
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.