I have a friend who is an avid photographer and he grows tired of hearing, "That's a nice camera. It must make nice pictures." As he puts it, it is no different than telling a carpenter, "That's a nice hammer. It must make nice houses."
A camera is simply one tool that a photographer uses in their craft. Producing powerful images is much more than "point-and-click".
I was brought up in Dundee, Scotland, in the 1960s and our tenement buildings were similarly strewn. It's quite an ingenious system - the washing lines are attached to the poles in the center of the yards with pulleys. The housewives would reel the washing in and out like naval flags! In the basement of the buildings or in special out-houses would be the communal wash tubs, great big vats heated by a fire. Huge loads would be tipped into these vats and then stirred with a big wooden paddle or a washing 'dolly' before being scrubbed by the traditional wash-board. Mondays were indeed the traditional day for doing this, it was all part of the strage routine that went on in tenements and it was seen as 'bad form' to have washing hanging out on any other day. As the 1970s came and the tenements started to disappear - and electric washing machines became available - this way of life started to disappear. Although I still know older Scots who still abide by 'Wash Monday'.
You're missing the point here; Titan will end up going that route because that's the only way they can keep from being undercut by Chinese manufacturers, and the only way to stay in business. The French union workers not only get paid much more than the Chinese workers, but they work fewer hours and have more mandated holidays; buying the Amiens plant would've been a stupid business decision because of the baggage that comes along with it.
I have a friend who is an avid photographer and he grows tired of hearing, "That's a nice camera. It must make nice pictures." As he puts it, it is no different than telling a carpenter, "That's a nice hammer. It must make nice houses."
A camera is simply one tool that a photographer uses in their craft. Producing powerful images is much more than "point-and-click".
speaking of coffee enemas did you know Steve McQueen spent his last days in Mexico getting coffee enemas from an orthodontist.