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Post by Wayne Land on Dec 23, 2018 23:37:43 GMT -5
I never saw this before now. And I always assumed that the numerous copies of the famous tintype were complete copies of the photo. Now I"m wondering whether the photo sold in auction a few years back for 2 million actually showed the second person holding the panel. Has anyone else ever seen this before and who is the other person in the photo? I clipped this from a video about the history of Ft. Sumner. The bottom portion is cut off because of the more square dimensions of the video in which it was embedded. In fact, the quality of the photo is the best "unretouched" copy I've ever seen although I had to reduce the size to be able to post it here.  |
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Post by nmjames on Dec 24, 2018 0:53:17 GMT -5
Wayne,
You can go to Tim Keller Photography.com and look up Chasing Billy the Kid. You will find this picture.
nmjames
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Post by clydec on Dec 27, 2018 8:16:58 GMT -5
I believe this was photoshopped in at a later date.
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Post by Wayne Land on Dec 27, 2018 13:47:56 GMT -5
That may be but if so, it is remarkably well done. I had seen copies of the tintype before where you can see the guy's fingers holding the panel, but never this image. Why would anyone want to go to such extreme effort (and it would be a monumental task) to match the texture, tone, distortion, etc? There is one aspect that looks very suspicious and that is the face of the other man is much more clearly defined than Billy's. I'd just like to know for sure. Very curious!
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Post by MissyS on Dec 27, 2018 16:21:04 GMT -5
It's crazy, but I remember in the book "The Demise Of Billy the Kid" by Preston Lewis, a book about a fictional character of a man named Henry Harrison Lomax who claimed he knew Billy The Kid, and in the book he claimed he was hiding from Billy and hid behind the photographer reflector while Billy had his photo taken, the book was said to have been based on Lomax's memoirs that was supposedly discovered while conducting research at Texas Tech Univesity. Although H.H.Lomax's memoirs was not considered historically truthful, and the book fictional, maybe there was a small bit of truth to it?  |
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Post by Wayne Land on Dec 27, 2018 21:06:50 GMT -5
Since my last post, I've seen reason to believe the photo is a fake. I found the tintype image where you can see someone's hand on the reflector and it is in a completely different position that is shown in this photo. One of them is a fake. Probably this one.
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Post by sushiadam on Jan 1, 2019 17:32:16 GMT -5
The guy who created this wasn't trying to trick anybody, it was some sort of photography project. Wish I could remember his name.
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