[Leica] RETROSPECT 72

[Brian Reid]

Your editor was wrong.

On 2020-04-05 11:24 am, Bill Clough via LUG wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Ada+Williams_+Houston_+Texas+April_+1973+___+01611.jpg.html
> 
> 
> –Bill