The Gecko Tree
Sat ,26/07/2008
A Moment in Photographic History:
Irish photographer George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin on July 26, 1856. He was also a writer of some note. Such note as a writer that he received the Nobel Prize which he was going to refuse until his wife convinced him that it would be an honour to Ireland. He did accept it but, as a good Socialist, he refused the monetary prize insisting that it be used to finance the translation of Swedish books into English. He is also the only person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Now I could go on but it is starting to sound like a rant.
A Photographic Quote of Note:
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off… It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved… Our fashionable books on African and Australian travel are full of photographs of dark ladies undraped and unembarrassed whose natural propriety passes unchallenged because their self-possession makes us forget our natural prudery.
- – - – - – - George Bernard Shaw
