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His name was Ben Rosen, and he was 95, and didn't look a day over 70, if you can believe that.
I met him in 2004 when I was researching my third book. I was looking for pictures of Cincinnati movie theaters and found a website that was hosting pictures that he took back in the 1910s and 1920s. I contacted him through the website and asked if I could use some of his photos in my book. He said yes, that was fine. All he wanted was photo credits, which I gave him.
They were previously unpublished and unseen photos.
He was a real estate and publicity photographer for most of his life and had tens of thousands of photo negatives. I was given a CD Rom of photos of theaters, most of which went into my book. Very sharp, clear, nicely-defined pictures.
I had a small party for the major contributors when the book came out in 2005, and he was there. He was a nice old man, very spry, did not look 93. And he enjoyed his copy of the book very much.
That was really the only time I saw him, but other people we know (other contributors in their 60s and 70s) befriended him as well and met with him socially on several occasions. They thanked me today for introducing him to them.
He's had heart problems and died peacefully this week, as I'm told.
I'm not really broken up about it (don't know if that's bad or not) since I didn't know him very well, but at least his memory is preserved in my book.
allen
I met him in 2004 when I was researching my third book. I was looking for pictures of Cincinnati movie theaters and found a website that was hosting pictures that he took back in the 1910s and 1920s. I contacted him through the website and asked if I could use some of his photos in my book. He said yes, that was fine. All he wanted was photo credits, which I gave him.
They were previously unpublished and unseen photos.
He was a real estate and publicity photographer for most of his life and had tens of thousands of photo negatives. I was given a CD Rom of photos of theaters, most of which went into my book. Very sharp, clear, nicely-defined pictures.
I had a small party for the major contributors when the book came out in 2005, and he was there. He was a nice old man, very spry, did not look 93. And he enjoyed his copy of the book very much.
That was really the only time I saw him, but other people we know (other contributors in their 60s and 70s) befriended him as well and met with him socially on several occasions. They thanked me today for introducing him to them.
He's had heart problems and died peacefully this week, as I'm told.
I'm not really broken up about it (don't know if that's bad or not) since I didn't know him very well, but at least his memory is preserved in my book.
allen
