[Leica] RETROSPECT 125 [FINAL]

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 Bill Clough <billclough042541 at gmail.com>wrote:

>And so, on my 79th birthday (4/25), the last of 125 images which
>partially summarize 60 years in photojournalism. The collection extends
>from 1960 to 1988. The product of the rest of the years are found on the
>LUG website.
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/>
>...
>..
>..
>That dorkwad then tossed out five decades of negatives and all the
>back issues, dating back to 1914. He was fired for it, but all those
>negatives, all that history, now are rotting in a landfill.

>?Bill
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I didn't want the series to end.  I'll check out the link, but it was nice
seeing them with a group.

That last item is depressing.  In a similar vein, in 1970, when I was
leaving the UWM POST student newspaper at
graduation (with my negatives), I noticed that at least one of my
predecessors had left his negatives, in six-frame
strips, loose in a box in the darkroom.  I took them home and later
realized they were records of a lot of
Vietnam protests, including draft card burnings, marches, and even some
pictures of the big rally at the 1968
Democratic convention in Chicago.  I tried to contact the photographer, but
he never responded, so I organized them
as best I could and made contact sheets.  I still have them, but don't know
any details on most dates and locations.

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

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