Re: Widening Earl's concept of a 'Phraud-O-Graph' . . .

Johnson Barr Wrote:

> I have looked real close at John's
> other...photo from Laws; the one at
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> – and I can't find a durn thing about it to
> indicate he didn't take it with his dad's 4x5
> Speed Graphic in 1952 instead of with a high-end
> Nikon in 2017!

Actually the dead giveaway (or at least question mark) is right in the foreground, the high level switch stand. That is a new or reconfigured switch. The original ng. (mostly) used low level stands like the one in the picture with the old cars. However in the later years a few high level ones did creep in.

I think the fun part of phraudography is to convey the "ambience" of the old, without necessarily trying to fool anyone. It is a bit like the difference between recreation and preservation, you really don't want to fool anyone but it is fun (and perhaps even occasionally educational) to show folks what things more or less looked like in the old days. A working steam engine tells a lot more interesting story than a static exhibit.

JBWX



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2017 02:09PM by John West.