European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              I i o1 Corner in Mont male showing the Moulin do la Colette kick off tile of the French cancan and meeting place or the Gaier elements of by hem staff writer aside a discouraging Ca reer As an a Dowson Hasluck inc Man from the provinces stepped into a new role As one of the most prolific photographers in Paris at the outset the t b e impoverished thespian turned lensman won Little applause for his Geni us during his lifetime although his photographs consume an important historical record of  Only now is Fame As a pictorial artist coming to Eugene at gel More than 39 years after he this year the first genuine recognition of his Brilliant camera work came in a four month Salon showing us the prestigious Blello Cheque Nalin Nale National Library in new acclaim for Algol skill with his crude camera came this month with publication of the world of a fid by horizon press in new a Beautiful Book of 17o it includes a  sketch of the almost for gotten Frenchman by Berenice miss an american who be friended the lonely a get in his declining years when she was working in 12 Alger shortly before hit purls to establish her own is today a distinguished new York photog she look the Only known photographs of 1927 shortly before his hut a Library of thousands of his prints and this vast accumulation of his work was thought to have been lost but miss Abbott traced them to a Friend in bought them and has preserved them for Al most 40 the supremacy of a get As an authentic Genius of the the greatest photographer that Ever lived is coming to be recognized throughout the miss Abbott but Algol Art is almost overshadowed by the Story of his perseverance through 30 years of shabby living on Paris left few artists Ever Pur sued an obsession with More dogged de termination than this so Range slave to his a get was born in near bord Eaux on an orphan raised by an he spent his youth at sea and for the next 20 years roamed France As a bit actor playing provincial the stars and strikes tiring of Dull parts and poor pay in Iron plug the Atych appeared f in Paris in 1818 at the age of 41 with Little Money and an older woman who became his lifelong j the disconsolate actor had Many f friends who were parisian an f Ignatc pictorial sense probably tempted in seeking a new artistic to j join he tried then decided to Bej come a photographer to the Coni slut Rahic profit of buying a cheap All he could of a get set out with his cumbersome camera and equipment it must have weighed nearly 50 pounds on an in credibly prodigious project to create a collection of everything Curi Ous and historical in this ambitious undertaking he pressed toward with painstaking perfection through almost three laboriously using ills he Ivy tripod for every motion and the slowness of photo graphic plates us the Lima were the Bane of the former bit players task in Tho bustling when Tho first successful photographic process was made Public in the if