This took place back in 1968. At the time I had a small photo studio in San Francisco, in the Mission District, and had very little money. Early one day I photographed a couple of fish mongers in their shop window, setting out their fish for display. They were standing in the window, holding a huge fish that was so big that it took both of them to hold it. Seeing me with my camera, they posed for a photograph, standing in ice above their ankles, wearing high, black rubber boots and white smocks. The guys were quite a sight. Upon returning to the studio I made then an 11x14, and went back to the shop later in the day. They paid me for the photo with crabs and shrimp and scallops. That night my girlfriend and I opened a bottle of inexpensive white wine, made a salad, and feasted on the generosity of the fish mongers. The table was a wooden box, set in the middle of the studio, and we sat on pillows on the floor, savoring every bite of the food and every sip of the wine.
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