In 1997 Tim saw a photo negative plate owned by photographer Mark Austin – a young black man was holding a harp guitar. Through research Tim identified the man in the photo, and the photographer. Recently there was an article written about a nearly identical photo, now identified as the brother of the man in […]

Taj Mahal called me Saturday night and was excited as he had just learned that the legendary black jazz guitarist Charlie Christian’s father played the harp guitar. “What I would give to know what kind of music they played,” he said. In 1997 I met photographer Mark Austin, who had bought a glass plate negative […]