Larry Caye - The Latent Image

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Originally Posted by Pepper II

The pics quoted below are from the Christina Lee thread where there are also more from this set. These are marked as being from DDG (J. Stephen Hicks) studios and are copyrighted 1999. If we look at the previous post on page 6 we see Larry was offering slides from this same shoot at least as early as 1991.

And here is the same shoot in 1987.

Now here is a slide set from this shoot. So the question is which came first, the Larry Caye chicken or the J. Stephen Hicks egg? We believe TLI folded in 1997 so it seems reasonable Hicks may have bought the rights to some of Caye's material. If you can shed any light on this by all means please speak up.

Unless your phone box turns into a Tardis, I don't see what the problem is?

Christina Lee's first PHUS pictorial was 1987-02, & credited to Hicks according to Viklas. So without any further/contrary info. I'd say Hicks took the photos in late '86 or early '87. Caye must have bought the right to sell them--same as he also bought other photographer's work/sets, evident in some of his catalogues you've posted above. The 1999 copyright on the digital slides I think is misleading. I doubt Christina Lee came out of (photographic) "retirement" for a fresh (re-)shoot ~12 years later. All it probably means is those images were digitised for web use/sale around about then.

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edit: yes, I know the PHUS 1987-02 set was different from the one in question, but I still suspect Hicks probably took more than one set of her around about then.