Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:10:55 -0500 (EST)

From: Joy Garnett joyeria@xxxxx

To: smeiselas xxxxx

 

By email + by post:

 

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From:

JOY GARNETT

xxxxx

NEW YORK, NEW YORK xxxxx

(212) xxxxx

JOYERIA@xxxxx

 

                                       March 8, 2004

Susan Meiselas

c/o Barbara T. Hoffman, Esq.

xxxxx

New York, New York xxxxx

 

Dear Susan:

 

        I have tried, at your request, to relocate the URL of the website

where I had found the uncredited fragment of Nicaragua, Esteli that I

described in my response to your attorney.  Unfortunately I cant find it.

This is not unusual, since I do not--cannot--bookmark the many hundreds of

sites I browse on a daily basis.  Also, since it has been over a year

since I found this particular image, the history of sites Ive visited is

no longer cached in my browser.  I have tried to retrace my steps by

searching for images by key word as I normally do, but to no avail.

Perhaps this is good news for you, considering the constantly changing

nature of the Web, it is highly likely that the page containing this image

either no longer exists, or no longer contains this image.

 

        What I do have and can give you is exactly the image that I saw

when I was looking for examples of people in states of emotional distress.

Since I downloaded it and still have it, I enclose a copy.  This is the

image as it appeared on the website without any identifying information of

any kind. [coming by post].

 

   I want to stress once again that I did not realize that I was modeling

my painting on a portion of your photograph.  The portraits of distress I

have been making purposefully exclude references to any well known

photographs.  So for both you and my intentions, I regret not having

recognized this image as such at the time.

 

Yours truly,

 

Joy Garnett