Why a sad tale? Have a look at this half-tone photo of San Francisco that I took in 1984. Why half-tone and not a proper print? Read the text below the photo to find out!
I poured all my spare time and spare money into photography when I lived in San Francisco, and had several photos printed as half-tones to sell as a pack of photos of San Francisco while I lived there. In the middle of this project, I decided to move to Japan, and I entrusted my rented garage (where all of my negatives, photos, and half-tones were) to a guy I used to work with who I had thought was a friend, but he (curse him to the maximum extent possible) told me a year later, when I wanted to have my pictures sent to me in Tokyo, that he had trashed everything.
And so - all I have are a few sets of the half-tone printed pictures that I carried over with me in 1984. So - if you've seen this picture before, please contact me - as it may be that the guy who told me he trashed everything, didn't trash it, but stole it. It would be good to know the truth. It would be fantastic if I could get my negatives and prints back from that time. I spent two years walking around the streets of San Francisco taking those pictures....
Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
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