The End of the Game, Revisited
I met Micheline Gingras and Bruce Gilden in front of the garbage cans on Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights, one night around midnight. They were walking their dog, and I was walking Michael Edelson and Regina Fiorito from my apartment to the train station. Michael a writer on photography, Bruce a photographer.
It was Michael who introduced Cornell to Marcello Largo, an Italian commercial photographer. Cornell said, as he said to many, “What can we do together?” He went on to say how much he enjoyed being in Venice where he had photographed Igor Stravinsky, that he would love to go back. From this slight conversation came Venezia ’79. A colossal accomplishment, one many of us thought could not possibly be achieved. But that was later.
