Juicing the
routine photo assignment
In
the
old days, newspaper editors got incessant calls requesting promotional
photographs for clubs, schools, businesses, philanthropic
organizations, fraternal groups, and whatever. It was tradition that
the paper should respond favorably.
When I was an Advocate photographer some 40 years ago, my boss, Frank
Spencer Jr., and I busted butt trying to accommodate folks from
throughout the community who wanted their photos published.
This is one of them.
Hair, scissors, comb = barber, right?
Then why the bow tie? Because he is not a barber, but ...
I can't remember exactly, but my guess is that this fellow was just
elected to the presidency of a Barbershop Quartet organization, maybe
state.
We could have announced it with a little news blurb and a head shot,
but we chose to make it more spectacular, for which I got points.
That's why I put the scissors, hair and comb on the surface of the
photographic paper under the enlarger...
... proving that you can spend a lot of time on projects like this.
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