I must confess

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Noah DiCenso ~1978~It is true. This was me when I was 2 years old. Like it or not, I was the descendant of two hippy parents and had the long hair to prove it. I was living somewhere back east at the time. It was either Maine or Pennsylvania. My parents owned a Health Food restaurant somewhere downtown. Apparently a reporter for a local health food paper captured the photo of me peeing on the sidewalk in my leather sandals. The picture was published in the paper.

I have tried for about a year to track down the actual source of the photo. I know the photographer's name was Betty Bennett. Of course this had to have been around 1978, so finding her if she is still alive will be a challenge. I actually found the website of a photographer who was Betty Bennett's protege. She stated that Betty had passed on but it is possible she had taken my photo 26 years ago.

I gave her as much info about the photo as I could come up with including news print info on the back of the piece of newspaper I have containing the photo. She stated that she was the curator of the late Betty Bennett's collection of work. She seemed really excited that she might actually be able to find an original for me. Of course, I was really excited too. I followed up a couple of times. Never with any real luck. Oh well, I guess it gave me something to hope for. BTW - the version of the photo shown here is the result of me scanning a 26 year old newsprint and performing extensive photoshop restoration on it.

 

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