[Leica] RETROSPECT4

[Marty Deveney]

I have a good memory, particularly for photos.  When I saw ‘Madison’ [
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/leica-gallery/paw2003/madison-46065.jpg.html]
I was stunned.  Then you posted the Ashes to Ashes series [
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/Panhandle/] and I felt like I was
there.  Now this . . . it’s simply the best portrait I’ve seen in a very,
very long time.  Outstanding.

Marty


On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 at 2:31 pm, Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> USA
>
> TEXAS
>
> VICTORIA
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>
> Hi there –
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> 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.
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> He was at the local police department trying to smooth ruffles after one of
> his inexperienced reporters did a story on police brutality.
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> 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.
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> He also was a painter. And an historian. One ntire room in his home was
> devoted to file cabinets.
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> I met him in 1961; left the paper in 1964 and reported for acgive duty with
> the U.S. Navy a year later.
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> 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
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/John+L_+McCarty+-+00054.jpg.html
>
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