A photographic imagination

Being dead helps: the 'found' photos of Jerry Shore
From Tim Connor (colorstalker) on Flickr

Sure, it’s sad that a man of such talent & drive died unknown, believing himself a failure, that his work almost disappeared. But of course such things happen all the time. The real tragedy, the morbid joke, is that in the end the publicist, the curator and the collector are more important than the art. Without a collector/archivist like Daniel Wolf to buy up his prints after he died & a writer of Gopnik’s stature to analyze them in a major publication, we wouldn’t know anything at all – nada forever -- about Jerry Shore.