My First Communion, A Book of Birds & A Red Bra
Friday, July 19, 2013
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| Linda Lorenzo - El Federal |
Last Thursday’s purchase of Wallace Reyburn’s
Bust-Up – The Uplifting tale of Otto Titzling and the development of the bra
had me going into my files to find photographs of my subjects from the past and
most recently where they may have posed with a bra.
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| Alex & Lolita my grandmother |
My blog, this one, went up and soon as it
was up I remembered three or more subjects who had posed in a bra. But I was
angry at myself that one of my best subjects ever, the very Argentine and very beautiful
Linda Lorenzo had not posed for me in a bra.
On 7 December 1950 when I was 8 years old I
had my first Communion in a chapel around the corner from our house on Calle Melián in Buenos
Aires. I know that exact date for a fact because
Alicia Bakken (she must have been a friend of my mother’s) gave me a book, an
Argentine book, El Mundo de los Pájaros which featured facts and illustrations
of Argentine and South American birds. I have kept the book all these years.
Some 13 years ago,
Juan Manuel Sánchez, Nora Patrich, Claudia Katz and I had a show called
Argentine Nostalgia. During, almost a year preceding the show we met with Linda
Lorenzo and used her as our inspiration for memories we had of the rosy
Argentine of our past.
Remembering my book of
birds I chose a few from my green book and transformed Lorenzo into those
birds.
One of them was the
Federal, a bird with a bright red head and chest. I asked Lorenzo if she had a
red bra. She didn’t. Nora Patrich did.
I am happy to report
that indeed I did photograph the beautiful Linda Lorenzo in a bra. I would not
now add her picture to that other bra blog. I will place it here where she deserves, all
alone and with no competition.
Argentine Birds
That elegant and most melancholy Tero
Argentine Birds
That elegant and most melancholy Tero
