> Galen Rowell made the observation that although there are many child > prodigies in music, there has not yet been one in photography.
Oh but he's quite wrong. I interviewed one of them in Washington, a young black boy from the projects who was given a camera and some basic instructions through a program called "Shooting Back." He was illiterate and could hardly articulate simple thoughts, but his photographs elicited praise widely from professionals in the visual fields and the public alike and were incorporated into a book. And of course the textbook example is Jacques Henri Lartigue, who was given his first camera in 1901 at the age of seven and had done much of his life's best work by the time he turned thirteen. If anyone doesn't know this stuff, I highly recommend the recent Bulfinch book _Jacques Henri Lartigue, Photographer_, Introduction by Vicki Goldberg, 0-8212-2549-9. It's just marvelous stuff and worthy of protracted looking. Very enjoyable. --Mike
