No Photos! at the Louvre

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Padraig Breathnach writes:
[snip]
I suspect that they don't have great scarcity value.

Probably true.


Never attribute to cunning, that which can be explained
by stupidity.

I dunno. I'm Irish, after all.

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:02:57 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

luckym writes:


It was funny watching hundreds of tourists from around the
world just gazing at the Mona Lisa just dying to snap a photo when just
a few days before everyone was snapping away with oblivion taking turns
posing in front of the Mona Lisa,etc.

The 'Virgin of the Rocks' is a much better painting, sans the crowds.

On 28 Sep 2005 09:59:34 -0700, "luckym"
wrote:

Two weeks ago I was at the Louvre and may have lucked out as they
instituted a new no-picture-taking policy at the Louvre a couple days
after I went there and took a gazillion pics of the Mona Lisa,Raft of
the Medusa,Death of the Virgin,etc.I may have been one of the last
people to be able to do so.The second time I was there on my last
night,a Wednesday night 9/14,the guards were loudly shouting "No
photos!" at all the tourists and telling them to put away their
cameras.It was funny watching hundreds of tourists from around the
world just gazing at the Mona Lisa just dying to snap a photo when just
a few days before everyone was snapping away with oblivion taking turns
posing in front of the Mona Lisa,etc.

I just cannot understand why anyone would want a photo of the Mona
Lisa.

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But I can understand why a tourist would like to be photographed next to
it, just like the Eiffel Tower. Do I agree it should in any way impose
on those just there to appreciate the painting; hell no.

Tim K

"B Vaughan" wrote in message
...


I just cannot understand why anyone would want a photo of the Mona
Lisa.

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My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero
dot it
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:28:39 +0200, B wrote:

On 28 Sep 2005 09:59:34 -0700, "luckym"
wrote:

Two weeks ago I was at the Louvre and may have lucked out as they
instituted a new no-picture-taking policy at the Louvre a couple days
after I went there and took a gazillion pics of the Mona Lisa,Raft of
the Medusa,Death of the Virgin,etc.I may have been one of the last
people to be able to do so.The second time I was there on my last
night,a Wednesday night 9/14,the guards were loudly shouting "No
photos!" at all the tourists and telling them to put away their
cameras.It was funny watching hundreds of tourists from around the
world just gazing at the Mona Lisa just dying to snap a photo when just
a few days before everyone was snapping away with oblivion taking turns
posing in front of the Mona Lisa,etc.

I just cannot understand why anyone would want a photo of the Mona
Lisa.

So you could compare your photo of her with the famous painting - see
how good a likeness it was? you know like those pavement artist
guys do with their charcoal sketches in tourist places the world over.

Jim.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:53:45 +0200, Magda
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:39:57 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, (Jim Ley)
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

...
... So you could compare your photo of her with the famous painting - see
... how good a likeness it was? you know like those pavement artist
... guys do with their charcoal sketches in tourist places the world over.
...
... Jim.

Postcards are much cheaper than a pic and much better exposed.

But they'd be pictures of the painting - I thought the issue was a
photo of the young lady?

Jim.

B Vaughan wrote:

On 28 Sep 2005 09:59:34 -0700, "luckym"
wrote:

Two weeks ago I was at the Louvre and may have lucked out as they
instituted a new no-picture-taking policy at the Louvre a couple days
after I went there and took a gazillion pics of the Mona Lisa,Raft of
the Medusa,Death of the Virgin,etc.I may have been one of the last
people to be able to do so.The second time I was there on my last
night,a Wednesday night 9/14,the guards were loudly shouting "No
photos!" at all the tourists and telling them to put away their
cameras.It was funny watching hundreds of tourists from around the
world just gazing at the Mona Lisa just dying to snap a photo when just
a few days before everyone was snapping away with oblivion taking turns
posing in front of the Mona Lisa,etc.

I just cannot understand why anyone would want a photo of the Mona
Lisa.

Oh, I can understand it. People like taking pictures of famous things-
"see, this is when we saw the Mona Lisa."

Though it's always hopelessly crowded whenever I've seen it at the
Louvre, it is a rather beguiling painting. Worth the hype, I don't know,
but certainly worth a look. Yes, a postcard will be better, but people
take pictures of things all the time, where better alternatives exist! I
prefer it when people aren't allowed to take pictures in museums, as I
find it annoying personally. Or maybe a compromise, a limited number of
hours, or specific day, when they could be taken?

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:19:32 +0100, Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote:

On the other hand the Louvre's concern about the effect of flash on
other viewers is bang on.

When I was there in 1995 flash photos were not allowed - signs were
everywhere, showing the red slash through the flashbulb. Non flash
were allowed. Despite the signs, throngs of people stood around
taking flash photos and no one in authority ever stopped them.

Easier perhaps to just ban photos altogether.

Haven't they ever heard of Photoshop?

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:33:31 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
wrote:

But I can understand why a tourist would like to be photographed next to
it, just like the Eiffel Tower. Do I agree it should in any way impose
on those just there to appreciate the painting; hell no.

Tim K

"B Vaughan" wrote in message
.. .


I just cannot understand why anyone would want a photo of the Mona
Lisa.

--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero
dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:02:57 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

This is a particularly stupid policy. Many people go to the Louvre
_only_ for the purpose of taking pictures (e.g., most Japanese
tourists). I can't imagine what sort of idiot would have come up with
this.

As opposed to going to the Louvre to appreciate great art. It's
probably a reaction to all those idiots who violated the no flash
warnings and continued clicking away. Really annoying ot people who
actually want to see the art...

Anyway, I was far more impressed with Winged Victory than the Mona
Lisa...