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	Pablo Picasso This is the earliest photograph in this collection, taken in 1954 the summer of the year that I got out of the army. Immediately returning to my junior year at Columbia, I had given up photography because in my two years in the army I didn't touch a camera. I believed that my photography habit was bad for me. Because I was making a trip to Europe with my best friend, I decided to take a Rolloflex with a lot of black and white film along with me on our month long stay in Europe. I had never seen a celebrity before and when we arrived at a bullfight arena in Southern France, nothing excited me more than seeing Pablo Picasso sitting in the front row across the arena. Could it be that this moment was my first pang of photojournalism? All I knew was that I wanted to take a picture of the famous artist. So as several bullfights passed, a plan developed. There was an isle directly in front of Picasso, through which crowds of people were wiggling their way from the concession stands to their seats. With my loaded camera, I cautiously walked towards him. I only took one frame because there wasn't a chance for two! If you look at the picture closely, you can see that he was talking to a woman in a Spanish dress. The spot on his forehead is the end of her long tear drop earrings, and the bustier of her dress is the black shadow crossing his neck. It was a lucky shot and I was thrilled to have gotten it.
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