In response to last Friday’s homage to Harry Lunn, his son Christophe wrote “The Hank O’Neal picture you selected was the last portrait taken of my father, in 1998, at Berenice Abbott’s 100th anniversary celebration. Every year, on her birthday, a small group of friends gathered at her grave in Maine. Every year, my father bought a bottle of the year’s most popular new perfume and sprayed it all over his
dear friend’s tombstone, leaving the bottle behind. That year, he
discovered a tombstone where it was written “Harry L”. He sprayed
that tombstone too, perhaps sealing his own fate…”
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