[LargeFormat] Dagor77 (Was cult lenses)

[Stuart Phillips]

That plate of eggs and ham is wonderful. Must be quite a lens to capture the
full spread :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@ix.netcom.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Dagor77 (Was cult lenses)


> >
> >
> > tim
> >
> >
> > PS - do you want the jpegs for the brochure? I found it on
> the internet
> > somewhere - 4 pages - it's worth it for the most
> unappealing B&W picture of
> > what looks like pork chops and eggs in little mashed
> potato cones adorning
> > the cover... how they ever thought that would sell lenses
> :-)
> >
> >
>   Sure, send it along.
>   A friend has a book of food illustrations from magazines
> of the 1930s through 50s. The title is something like
> Regretable Food. Its stuff like Jello molds with canned
> stuff in them photographed badly. Maybe they are good
> photographs and the stuff just looked like that. It seems
> that mid-western US cooking at the time required making sure
> that everything was completely and truely dead before
> serving it. My mom was a good cook but did use a pressure
> cooker. It gave the impression that we were keeping a small
> steam locomotive in the kitchen.
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
>
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