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Kestrell ([personal profile] kestrell) wrote2022-02-06 11:47 am

Does this webpage really contain a picture of me with Chip Delany at Readercon a few years ago?

I remember when someone took a picture of us with our heads bent together, each describing our love of the city of New Orleans, but I don't, myself, have a copy of that picture.
https://www.sallywienergrotta.com/category/appearances/?page_number_0=11&page_number_1=2
Added later: Please read in the comments for a picture description provided by teenybuffalo, and I also encourage everyone to read this brilliant interview with Chip, in which Chip describes growing up with undiagnosed dyslexia

Samuel R. Delany Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 210
Interviewed by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6088/the-art-of-fiction-no-210-samuel-r-delany
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[personal profile] teenybuffalo 2022-02-06 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)

Yes! It took me a minute to find it, even visually, but I got it. I'll email a saved copy to you, as I'm assuming you'd like it for your records. It's a flippin' awesome photo. If you wanted to use it as personal/publicity material, I can't imagine the photographer would say no to that request.

Image description:

Kes and Chip sit close together at a table with a white tablecloth, with a white paneled wall and a random unrelated passerby in the background. Kes (on the left), facing the camera, has bright reddish-orange hair cut short, glasses with dark oval lenses, a purple shirt and a purple paisley vest over that. Her forearms are crossed on the table in front of her, with a green ivy tattoo showing around her right wrist, and multiple silver rings on her fingers. She has her head tilted and is listening intently to Chip and smiling slightly. Chip (on the right), is in profile, smiling in a twinkly-eyed way, holding a coffee cup, in the middle of saying something. He has a huge well-maintained white beard and long white hair brushed back from his face. His visible ear has three big heavy silver hoops close together in the lobe. He has a hair elastic on the wrist of his right hand, which is holding a coffee cup. He wears a tan shirt over a black T-shirt. In his lap I can just see the top of his bag with pens sticking out of it, and the handles are attached to, I think, the top of a wooden cane.

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[personal profile] ambyr 2022-02-06 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I won’t try to reduplicate the description above, but I will say it’s a great picture, well-composed with good lighting.
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[personal profile] oracne 2022-02-07 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a great pic! If you don't know Sally and need to get in touch with her, I know her pretty well.
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[personal profile] oracne 2022-02-07 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I sent you a DM with relevant information.