The year 1955 was a good one for a student photographer at the University of Wisconsin named Duane Hopp. He took photos of Frank Lloyd Wright in formal wear and Louis Armstrong in his shorts.
The Wright photo ran in Life magazine. The one of Armstrong â?? the only photograph of him in his underwear, according to Satchmo â?? was published in the UW-Madison student yearbook. Now, a half century on, Hopp thinks it might be time to publish them again.
Hopp, 77, has been thinking there might be a book in the best of the thousands of photos he shot over his extraordinary career, which included 26 years at the Photographic Media Center at UW-Madison.