Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/02/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very avant-garde for 1961. Excellent in today's art world. On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:01 PM Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > USA > > TEXAS > > VICTORIA > > > Hi there ? > > > This is a bizarre portrait of John L. McCarty ? famous Texas author and, at > the time of this 1961 photograph, the editor of the Amarillo Citizen. > > > He was at the local police department trying to smooth ruffles after one of > his inexperienced reporters did a story on police brutality. > > > McCarty is famous for, during the Dust Bowl Days, forming ?The Last Man? > club in Dalhart, Texas, for those who would agree to stay instead of > leaving for better climes. > > > He also was a painter. And an historian. One ntire room in his home was > devoted to file cabinets. > > > I met him in 1961; left the paper in 1964 and reported for acgive duty with > the U.S. Navy a year later. > > > He had lived through such history; one of the regrets of my life is that I > wasn?t older when I met him. He made a defining mark on the Texas > Panhandle; I wish I had known him better. A West African saying is always > true" When a man dies, a library burns. > > > ?Bill > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/John+L_+McCarty+-+00054.jpg.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com