Barra de Navidad, Mexico. 1988. Award winning photograph Paul Goldfinger. Click image to enlarge.
This image (scanned from the published print) won first prize for the Pfizer Labs Calendar contest for 1987-88—–I was Miss August. The calendars were distributed around the world. I won six times, the most for any physician.
After that I gave up color for the world of black and white photography; returning to color only after seeing the results on-line and starting Blogfinger in 2009.
As a member of the visiting faculty at the University of Guadalajara Medical School, Eileen, the 2 boys, and I got to spend a weekend at Barra de Navidad, a non-touristy farming and fishing community on the Gulf, in the State of Jalisco, near the school. This door caught my eye while walking down a dirt street.
Below is the “blurb” that was part of the calendar. There was one for each of the 12 winners. I was a bit more rotund back then.
From the Pfizer Labs calendar
MARIACHI REAL DE SAN DIEGO: