OK, so, if a New York minute is something like three seconds, what is a photographer minute ?
Time is not only relative but essential to a photographer, especially when you re talking about the darkroom, where the photographer’s ideal images come to life in so many different forms, shapes, shades, and angles – sometimes right on target, according to the photographer’s pre-conceived notion, often out in left field, where the developing images are abandoned to roll away like a wasted foul balls originally intended for glory over the centerfield wall. Armed with Olympic-size talent and experience, Savannah’s most well-known photographer recently disengaged himself from a studio of work and people, and came noisily to the phone. And, then he promised to call you back in a couple of minutes. Yeah. Right. But, in all fairness to the guy – and Jack Leigh is just one of the guys, born and reared Savannahian – sometimes minutes seem like days in the Deep South. Leigh escaped the South and his roots as a young man barely out of college. He went abroad and then he went back to school, dis
