article · Issue No. 12, December 1956 · p. 27 p. 28

A Legend in Pictures

اسطورة في صُور

In these pictures you meet a legend of which the world's newspapers are speaking today, now that it has vanished from the world of the living...

This legend is made up of a man and a camera, which began together in 1936... The man has left the stage, and his machine, which immortalized him, remains...

Weeks ago, death carried off "Baron," the artist whose passion for his art drove him to frequent society, to enter palaces, to keep company with princes and kings, and then to venture to the very edge of death for the sake of a single "shot" — exactly as happened to him once, when he made his way into the snake garden and was attacked by a "cobra" that nearly cost him his life...

And here are some of the pictures "Baron" left in his "album"... among the finest a "camera" has ever immortalized...

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