(urth) The significance of Apu Punchau

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Tue Dec 30 22:12:32 PST 2008


Son of Witz wrote:
> I haven't read all the replies yet, so forgive me if this is redundant.
> but I've always figured it was a painting of the moon photo for a couple 
> of reasons.
> A) Rudesind cleans paintings and would know the difference between the 
> surfaces of a photo and a paining.
> B) Photo paper has a range of about 75 years before it begins to really 
> deteriorate.  It's hard to imagine photos surviving.

Where do photos of the American Civil War come from then?

Indeed, Rudesind may not see any difference between stellar tech 
reproductions of a photograph and of a photo-realistic painting. 
Holbein's portrait of Thomas Moore is an example of what I'm thinking of.

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