The day I shot the photos [December 29, 1954], the session went extraordinarily well. After a certain amount of horsing around, Jimmy behaved and became serious when I got the lighting set just right. He clicked, I clicked, and the photos clicked. He now had quite a bit of photographic experience himself, and after a while I let him direct some of the shots. It was all pretty heady. At one point he commented, “Don’t you think I look like Michelangelo’s David?” The pictures from that sitting became the “Torn Sweater” series. - Roy Schatt

The day I shot the photos [December 29, 1954], the session went extraordinarily well. After a certain amount of horsing around, Jimmy behaved and became serious when I got the lighting set just right. He clicked, I clicked, and the photos clicked. He now had quite a bit of photographic experience himself, and after a while I let him direct some of the shots. It was all pretty heady. At one point he commented, “Don’t you think I look like Michelangelo’s David?” The pictures from that sitting became the “Torn Sweater” series. - Roy Schatt