Collin Brendemuehl wrote: > What was your first published photograph? > >
Hmmm - well , not counting the stuff in the Hunter College SGS student news rag "The Night of the Hunter" , or the Scrabble newsletter, my first was a KINSA finalist that was published in the New York post in 1977. I think I got $25.00 for that. It was a shot of an Irish setter who had jumped into the sail boat lake in Central park and repeatedly had to be extracted by her master because the water was low and the "lake' is rimmed in cement. The master was standing to the left in the picture with hands on hips as if to say "Im not going to help you, you should be able to do this..." All you see are his legs and and the shadow of his arm in that hand on hip position. to the right is the drenched doggie with front paws on the cement rim and a woeful expression looking up at her master. A few months later, in winter, I saw an Irish setter in the park romping in the snow and doing something that was pretty foolish - slipping on ice, or whatever. and speaking to the owner I learned that it was the same doggie. So I told the guy that I had won a prize with the shot and it was hanging in the Kodak Gallery even as we spoke. So he looked down and the dog and said " you see that, Sam, you're famous." So I showed the guy my camera, which had "SAM" on the back (to distinguish it from Bubba, the other KX) - Sam by Sam (Sam the dog is Samantha, tho). I took the guys address and made him an 8 x 10 print - sent it and, sad to say - never heard from him again, no call, not even a postcard to say thank you. It pissed me off a bit, but I think it was more that many people regard photos as "just" pictures. Anyway,I THINK that ws my first published photo for which I got some cash. annsan
