Hi!
My mother died last summer at 87. As a memento, my father's Christmas
card this year has a photo taken of her in 1935 at Dominican College,
San Rafael, California. The posed photo shows three small groups of
women talking in front of a college building, and one walking toward the
door. There are nine women in the photo altogether. (Dominican was then
a women's college. I don't know if it still is.) Why am I reporting this
here? Because the photo was taken by Ansel Adams. In his hungry days he
apparently had a business doing photos of students. The shot at
Dominican was for a brochure, and was arranged by a friend of his at the
college, Sister Thomas.
I became serious about photography over 40 years ago, and all this time
neither of my parents told me about this.
I just talked to my father, who is still in California. He says that he
has 2 or 3 copies of a newspaper in which the photo appeared and will
send me one. Unfortunately all he and my mother clipped was the photo.
My father doesn't know which newspaper it was from.
Sad, yet beautiful story, Joe...
Boris
