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

[phritz phantom <phritz-phantom@web.de>]

upper sixties?? man it's really time you get some health care over there....

(joking!! i don't want to unleash that discussion unto the list...)
average life expectancy here in austria is 77.5 for men and 83 for 
women. usa is probably one or two years below that.
we should add some female photographers to the calculation to up the 
average!

phritz

Trevor Cunningham schrieb:
> 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.