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died while crossing the street in front of his Burbank home
Otto Jensen's home was also his photography studio
The studio was where he photographed such A-list people as
Jayne Mansfield, Steve Allen, and Sammy Davis
He met Jayne Mansfield in 1968 when Richard Nixon
selected Otto to photograph a Burbank fund-raising dinner
On his 82nd birthday, he met Paul Oliverio
at the Burbank YMCA
When I wished Otto birthday greetings, he said,
In dyslexic years, I am only 28 years old
We became friends immediately and no one on this earth
ever taught me more about photography than Otto
But if any of this sounds familiar,
it is because The GodFather of Math
paid tribute to Otto Jensen
I think of Otto every friggin' day
and recently re-discovered a bleached collage
of his postcard photography
Two other people I think of every friggin' day (plus every friggin' hour) are featured as this computer's screen saver and also on the next GoFather page |
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