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As tunes stick in one's mind but defy naming so do photographs....

 

I am trying to recall the photographer of a BW picture that shows a small crowd of men and a firework rocket being lit -- streaking diagonally across the frame of the picture.

 

I'm pretty sure it's a Magnum photog, it's definitely BWE and it may be taken somewhere in the Med countries. It isn't a contemporary picture but I can't remember how old.

 

Can anyone name the photog and -- ideally! -- offer a link to the picture?

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No, William, I can be reasonably sure that it's a European photog not Erwitt. BUt I am beginning to wonder whether it may not be a Magnum photog -- none of the numerous search variants I have tried on the Magnum site have uncovered it. When I find it I'll let you know...

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dlw -- YOU ARE RIGHT! Thank you and well done. I had a feeling it might be Koudelka, which means I must have it -- somewhere -- but I'm damned if I can find the book it's in.... The strangest thing however is that none of the search permutations I tried on Magnum's site turned it up....

 

Anyway, to those who replied, thank you -- and to dlw the biggest thank you.... This isn't a forum game: it is a fast route to psychological ill-health... I have been hauling down photo books from the shelves and stacks on and off for two days... I am here in my office now (where I have another "library" -- i.e dump -- of photo books specifically to carry on looking....

 

I shall now scour my Koudelkas to see where that damn picture is. Thanks again.

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I'm glad I got it on the first try. Very lucky.

 

I don't know which of Koudelka's books this might appear in, if any, I believe the title is something like "local residents let off rockets as part of a town festival in Guadix, Andalucía, Spain, in 1971."

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