Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Since I worked in TV news briefly in the late '70s I understand perfectly how a "good fire" can deep six a good feature story. Glad you were able to resurect it. Mike D James A. Gatlin wrote: > Greetings Mike: > > Thanks for the kind remarks about my Amnesty essay. > > To explain a little about the time line..... > I shot the photos on May 4th, 1988. At that time, I was assigned to cover > the story for a newspaper I worked for. The photo editors had sat aside some > space for the story, (since the end of the program was nearing the deadline > for the paper). Unfortunately, that very same night, there was a large high > rise office building fire in downtown Los Angeles, (The First Inter State > Bank Building as I recall). The Amnesty story and photos were pushed off the > paper by the massive fire. Ironically, after I left the INS office headed > back to the paper's lab to process the Amnesty photos, I was rerouted > instead to shoot some fast shots of the spectacular fire, which ran the > following day. > > The amnesty story was relagated to a small 3 or 4 inch news column in the > paper, without any photos. So the photos went into my "would have been", > "could have been" box, and life went on to the next story, and then the > next. Soon, the amnesty photos, and my notes were forgotten. > > I stumbled across the negs a few days ago while scanning some old stuff for > archival purposes. I rememberd how much I enjoyed the shoot, and thought > about what a good visual story it could have been.... so... I rumanged > around, and found my notes, and decided to create the story now. Originally, > a reporter covered the story with me, as I did the photos, and I suspect the > finished piece would have been much better with a writer... but I did the > best I could do with my old notes, and my own limited ability to write. > > So, the answer to your question is.. the photos were shot in 1988, and the > text was written a couple of days ago! :-) > > Thanks again for looking. > > Jim G. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 5:45 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Immigration Amnesty Program Essay.... > > > >>Hi James, >> >>Very nice work. Good story, nicely composed pictures and great faces. >> >>You mentioned that this amnesty program ended in 1988. Does that mean >>that this essay is one from the archives or is there something I missed. >> >>Mike D > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html