Richard Kalvar, Maine and Me.

excuse the crummy iphone picture quality

I went home to my mom's house in Maine last week and saw an old friend: a postcard that has been tucked in her mirror for a good long while. I think I sent it to her the summer I was a maid on Martha's Vineyard in college.

I did not know who took the picture at the time, and was delighted to turn it over now and see that it was Magnum's own Richard Kalvar.

Richard Kalvar/Magnum Photos

Here's the caption info:

Warsop Vale is one of England's largest mining towns. Between 1973 and 1974 it led several strikes protesting against British Prime Minister Edward HEATH's conservative labor policies. 1974.

No mention of what those folks were doing all bent over. In any case, it revived my memory of one of my own pictures:

I just had the need for these two girls to do backbends on the grass that afternoon so I could photograph it. It's like the picture was... already in my mind.

Mystery solved.

Anyone else have a parallel picture experience?

*UPDATE!

Richard Kalvar himself sent me an email about this post:

"Hello Rachel,

My picture inspired you to take your picture, which reminded me of
another of my pictures:"