I hate to think about it, but it seems that the financial troubles at PB and the firm’s new priorities are going leave Karen Price fans (and fans of other great PMs from past decades) with no new photos for the foreseeable future. The demise of the Daily Doubles and of special issues is depressing enough, but it seems they’ve scrapped as well the effort to release the test photos of popular PMs—a series that began superbly with Candy Loving’s. It’s hard to be certain, but am I right to think that the lone photos of Karen in the blue robe and of Karen on the orange sheets were probably test photos? If so, wouldn’t it be great to see more? (She has the same hasty makeup job in both photos: too much rouge for a natural beauty like Karen, but we fans will suffer it!)
Is there any way we could pay a ransom to free her unreleased photos? PB could certainly raise some cash that way. And if we VEF fans aren’t rich enough to meet PBs demands, there must be some multi-millionaire fan of Karen who would plunk down the cash needed to liberate her photos. Why waste all that money on dishonest campaign ads for bought-and-paid-for politicians, when they could spend their money on Karen's photos, something truly worthwhile that would bring happiness to millions of their fellow Americans? Isn't that the real meaning of philanthropy and public service? I’m beginning to fear that many of us will be gone by the time PB gets around to releasing Karen's photos—or that many of her photos may deteriorate beyond repair. That would be a tragedy, because she’s a beauty for the ages. It’s hard to imagine that Karen and the other great PMs will ever lack for fans in future generations.
