[Leica] RETROSPECT 72

[Bill Clough]

   Ada Williams was 103 and had caught chicken pox. The only photograph
possible was some kind of portrait. But it also serves as a great mistake.
One of the first lessons all photographers learn is the first thing you do
when taking a picture is to look behind the subject. I didn’t do that. When
the picture was published, one of the editors asked me if I realized what I
had done to Mrs. Williams. “You should have lowered the restraint behind
her. Leaving it up, the shape makes it look as if she was in a coffin.”
It’s a bitter lesson I have never forgotten.


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–Bill