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Nugos Per Halvarsson

This picture has a story of its own. It belongs to a series of photos I took on the same occasion. I came to visit Nugos Per after I had been down to Falun to borrow a fiddle I maybe wanted to buy. I came walking as Per met me on his bicycle. He didn't know of my arrival, because there was no chance to tell him in advance as he of course didn't have a telephone. When he saw that I carried a violin case he threw his bicycle on the side of the road and before he even had time to say "hallo" he said "take out the fiddle, let's see if you have 'the right strings'!" And he started playing right on the spot, totally absorbed and oblivious of my presence. I had also borrowed an antique Pentax camera with no automation at all, not even a light meter. As Per stood there, I ran around him taking one photo after another. Despite the primitive circumstances I later found out that these were the photos of my life.