The trajectory of a photographer’s life can be plotted using a variety of data; historical, biographical, anatomical, psychological, gustatory, economic, geographic, and aesthetic. It often happens, however exhaustive the historian’s research, that the points on the trajectory’s curve end up widely spaced and erratic. A contiguous set of points delineating a life’s progress seems to be an unobtainable goal when the nature of biographical documentation is considered. © 1994 Taylor & Francis Ltd.