Monday, April 23, 2007

R.I.P. Boris Nikolaevich


I suppose I should say that this great photo isn't mine, was taken by the eminent Russian photojournalist Aleksandr Zemlianichenko, won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for photography, and is used without any thought for profit. Will that save me from the lawyers?

This is a live-action version of the above (are 'live', 'action' and 'Yeltsin' words permissable in conjunction?); this is BNY with the Great Communicator; this is BNY engaging in holiday slapstick. There was also, on the front page of The Times in about 1997, a triptych of before, during, and after photos of BNY pinching the bottom of some European functionary, but I couldn't find them on the web. They were as good as that description makes them sound.

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