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Posted by Fred 2025-12-29 || E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1818 views ]  Top

1 From a photo series by Nina Leen of aspiring actress Jo Ann Kemmerling reading a book in the small bathtub in her New York City apartment sometime in 1953.

I still really appreciate B&W photography if done correctly. Subject, lighting, framing and context.

The eye is not distracted by somebody's idea of what the colors should be. It becomes more of a 'moment in time' instead of something else.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-12-29 08:15||   2025-12-29 08:15|| Front Page Top

2 Exactly MR. That's why Ansel Adams was such a genius..All about the shadows and shades of grey. Or mind can fill in the rest.

BTW - What's the device on the wall above her elbow at 11:00?

Looks like a hand crank car window from an old Ford...
Posted by Warthog 2025-12-29 08:29||   2025-12-29 08:29|| Front Page Top

3 ^2 It looks almost like a swing-away can opener. We had ours mounted on the inside of a cabinet door.
Posted by ChicagoNorth 2025-12-29 08:51||   2025-12-29 08:51|| Front Page Top

4 Hand crank soap grater.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-29 09:37||   2025-12-29 09:37|| Front Page Top

5 She should have a bath mat on the floor by that tub so she doesn't slip on the linoleum when she gets out of the tub. We'd all hate for that to happen.

And is that some kind of a doll on the shelf by the mirror?

Details, details...
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-12-29 11:27||   2025-12-29 11:27|| Front Page Top

6 The electric plug above the tub probably not the best idea.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-12-29 12:11||   2025-12-29 12:11|| Front Page Top

7 You could drop a toaster that’s not plugged in into the water to see if she jumps out.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-12-29 12:37||   2025-12-29 12:37|| Front Page Top

8 re: "the electric switch" above the tub. We had similar code problems with our Jacuzzi. I suggested battery powered switch or voice activated to our architect and he replied in horror:<strong> "No government inspector would understand how to deal with that and would refuse it!" Which goes right back to the stupidity of letting the government determine anything as they are bureaucrats and nothing else except many times crooks.
Posted by 3dc 2025-12-29 14:15||   2025-12-29 14:15|| Front Page Top

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