Kurt Miller Photography

…I saw this popped, a very nice memory from last year… 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

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"Dismantling the Fourth Estate"...apologies for the recent delay, it's so funny how life gets in the way. First day photo of the Hays and Culver offices on main floor. The cashier booth, when I used to work at the Fox Theater, I would meet with Fred Peltz and get our movie schedule squared away for the week and pay at this window in around 1977. Painting with light in the photo dark room, know as the Wing Lynch room. Also ink on the walls in the basement. The conduit of wire sitting on the ground on the first level near the lunchroom. Workers gather ceiling panels in the news room.

It's been a season, so pardon the interruption of..."Dismantling the Fourth Estate"...rainy days and Monday, even though it's a Tuesday...
..we were always a family even after the paper was no longer family owned...most of my best friends, had worked there, or were at least affiliated with it somehow. The connections we made...
.."what were you thinking" were the great leadership words uttered by Carlo Puma a long, long time back when he was working the night photo desk. I had come back with, some pretty crappy art, though to my defense it was a pretty delicate situation and would not have seen the light of day regardless...that is all I have to say to that. Carlos is as close or closer than my brother. That's what happened at the PE, you were in the trenches with your colleagues and a war was being fought if you walked away together, you would remain together.

When I was shooting this project in 2018, I kept tight lipped, I was greedy and wanted it all to myself, it was mine and only mine to f-up. There were still photos on the darkroom wall, which I thought was crazy, and intense. I was just shooting everything, no second chances. On the closer-up photo, there is an out of focus picture of Puma at left center, left of that is photo that was part of a picture story about a blind kid, that Carlos was working on, I think the top left photo and the bath photo are also part of the package, and I always assumed the bottom center photo was also part of the story...in a way it was part of the story, it is Carlos as a little kid, he had made a copy of the photo for his mom....
..I didn't find that out until the night of the opening of "In the Sunshine of Neglect".