(A journal entry. Written around a taped-in photograph later removed.)
10/7/88 Thought: Why always in photo b/g? Conj.: Nobody looks for him. Always accidental. Coincidence. –SOLVED(?)– Found three photos from S.M. hunters. One was usual b/g appearance. Rest no good, were supposed to be dead-on photos of the guy. Recovered photos ruined. Definitely not overexposure. Likely innate quality of S.M., only found after photography developed*. People can draw him without pictures going bad, problem being most people don’t get a good look at him. Or get a very good look at him and are killed/go crazy. Lose/lose situation for us.
(Other side of paper.) *Maybe developed this reflexively, when photos first invented. Or when first taken picture of. Or maybe he just can’t be photographed because we don’t have the tools to catch what he is on film in full detail.
Why show up at all? Bad luck for photographers? Idea: drawn to the flash, not too likely given daytime spottings but possible for night. (Leads to question, why photographers period? More later.)
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