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From: Kathy Isaacs <kisaacs>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:23:56 -0500
Joanna Rudge Long wrote:
This has become one of my pet peeves this year. It isn't even possible for a careful reader to figure out if an illustration of an historical event is from the time or from long afterward when the attribution is simply "Library of Congress,"
"Museum of the City of New York," or "Corbis." I asked Russell Freedman about it, thinking that as the father of the photobiography genre he might be especially conscious of the issue, and he seemed unaware of the problem, even in his own books.
Kathy Isaacs kisaacs at mindspring.com
Received on Fri 17 Nov 2000 06:23:56 PM CST
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:23:56 -0500
Joanna Rudge Long wrote:
This has become one of my pet peeves this year. It isn't even possible for a careful reader to figure out if an illustration of an historical event is from the time or from long afterward when the attribution is simply "Library of Congress,"
"Museum of the City of New York," or "Corbis." I asked Russell Freedman about it, thinking that as the father of the photobiography genre he might be especially conscious of the issue, and he seemed unaware of the problem, even in his own books.
Kathy Isaacs kisaacs at mindspring.com
Received on Fri 17 Nov 2000 06:23:56 PM CST
