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Sandra and Domenica Fuller and Starr Mauntner
Ron and Philo Rosenfeld
the Vanity Fair cover of Nancy and Ronald Reagan dancing at a White House ball. As a freelance photographer, he’s traveled all over the world with his camera and photographed many of its leaders, including Queen Elizabeth whom he’s shot more than once. I’ve watched him “take” a photograph. I was in one that he took for a book that he did with Hilary Geary Ross in New York. The location was a table in Michael’s restaurant, with me and three New York women, Emilia Saint Amand, Topsy Taylor and Joy Briggs who at the time were active supporters of City Harvest, the food collection and distri34 QUEST
Sherry and Ken Endelson with Julie and Peter Cummings
bution charity. I am a very self-conscious photo subject, and prefer not being photographed as a result. On this day, the four of us were seated at table and Harry was seated in a chair directly about 12 feet away from us. While sitting and waiting to hear from the photographer’s direction, I finally said to the man with the camera: “Harry, when the hell are you gonna take the picture?” Sitting back in his chair, he casually responded: “I already
Cheryl Krongard and Eric Brinker
Amanda and Curtis Polk
did.” This surprised me because we were not aware of it. I never saw the photo until the book was published. It was a closeup of the four of us having a conversation at table and laughing about something we were talking about. It was a beautiful shot. Everyone looked like they were enjoying the company—which we were—and the moment, while waiting for the photographer (who has the perfect eye). The camera came naturally
Danielle Moore, Dan Ponton and Lesly Smith
Sissy and Guenther Koehne
to him when he was a young boy growing up in Glasgow. He had no interest in educational matters except to move on. His interest in the camera was his habit. He just liked to take pictures, all the time. We could call it obsessive because it was steady throughout his childhood and throughout all his life. Harry has no interest in being photographed. When I see it happening I tend to think he’s waiting to get back to his side of the camera. At this stage of the great game of life as one of his subjects, Richard Nixon, described it, Harry enjoys the company since he’s being feted, but otherwise,
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Nolan and Michael Greenwald