{"id":2923,"date":"2025-05-08T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:46:24","slug":"what-happened-to-rita-carl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/what-happened-to-rita-carl\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Rita Carl?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During my last visit in Paris, I went to a Richard Avedon exhibition at the Cartier-Bresson Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rita-Carl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rita-Carl-595x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rita-Carl-595x1024.jpg 595w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rita-Carl-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rita-Carl-768x1321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rita-Carl-893x1536.jpg 893w, https:\/\/photoni.st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Rita-Carl.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rita Carl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition was an interesting snapshot of a time and place: the Southern US in the late 70s\/early 80s. The portraits, all square facing the camera with white background, were mostly of everyday worker: coal or copper miners, oil field workers, shop owners and their employees, local mums, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the photos struck me: Rita Carl. As it was the late 70s, she was probably 23 looking 40. Rita was a &#8220;law enforcement student&#8221; at the time. A rookie. I couldn&#8217;t help wondering whether she finished her training. Whether she became a cop. Whether she was retired by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a quick look around and couldn&#8217;t find any information. It doesn&#8217;t look like any more information about her has been posted since that photo. I don&#8217;t know where to look for information on US cops, so I have nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re in Paris, it&#8217;s an exhibition well worth your time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#Photography #Avedon #History #Documentary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my last visit in Paris, I went to a Richard Avedon exhibition at the Cartier-Bresson Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-opinion","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photoni.st\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}