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Subject: [OM] Cyrano de Wideanglac
From: "Peter A. Klein" <pklein@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:24:20 -0700
Doris, in her decalogue extolling the virtues of Very Wide Lenses, enumerated:

>2.-   How a composition changes with miniscule shifts in POV,
>      what one could call the "plasticity of space".

The trouble is, when one gets too close, "plasticity of space" becomes
"elasticity of face!"   :-)

(Doris makes a good point, of course, but that one was too good to pass up...)

Which brings to mind a famous photograph of Jimmy Durante (a.k.a. "The
Schnoz") in which the comedian's prominent proboscis was planted very close
to a wide angle lens?   It brought to mind his famous line:

"...I was walkin' down the street one day, and a man comes up to me, and he
says, 'is dat your nose, or are you eatin' a bannnnn-NANA?'"

Does anyone know who took that picture?

--- Peter
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