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In the Winery

Posted by Michael Rawluk (Williams Lake, BC, Canada) on 3 May 2008 in Food & Cuisine.

A Moment in Photographic History:
Danish photographer Jacob Riis was born May 3, 1849. After emigrating to the United States he became a police court reporter for the New York Tribune. By the end of the 1880s he began using photography to draw attention to the conditions under which the poor in the U.S.. His first book, "How the other half lives," exposed the appalling conditions of the time. One day Riis returned to his office to find a note reading "I have read your book and I have come to help." It was from the head of the New York Police Board of Commissioners, Theodore Roosevelt. The photographs Riis had taken were instrumental in securing a number of reforms.
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A Photographic Quote of Note:
Should a nude photograph be erotic or devoid of emotion ? I don’t believe any photograph should be devoid of emotion – as for erotic, that is up to the photographer.
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Canon EOS 5D
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F/4.0
ISO 100
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