Re: black fingernails, et al, was Re: Paper - baby oil Digi Negs
Women live longer than men. Nobody knows for certain why it is that way round. Men must however be grateful, because if it was the other way round we'd never hear the end of it. Don Sweet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Smigiel" <jsmigiel@net-link.net> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:23 PM Subject: Re: black fingernails, et al, was Re: Paper - baby oil Digi Negs > Imogen Cunningham at 93 died the same day as Minor White on June 24, > 1976. Perhaps Imogen used tongs. > > Joe > > > On Aug 30, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Trevor Cunningham wrote: > > > 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. > >> > > > > >
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