The plate section planned for Spite Work As a freelancer, you typically do your own photo research. My books about th...

The plate section planned for Spite Work As a freelancer, you typically do your own photo research. My books about the poet Weldon Kees and the daughter of Walter Gropius, Alma Mahler, and Franz Werfel, Manon Gropius, have balanced and informative plate sections that illustrate the various stages of their lives and milieus. A book that incorporates the life of Virginia Rappe and presents both her victimology and Roscoe Arbuckle’s offers some challenges. She was a model and an actress—and all of her photographs are staged. And this is true of Arbuckle as a motion picture comedian. Certain photographes, however, would have a special place in Spite Work. During his opening argument for the People at the third trial, Assistant District Attorney Milton U’Ren handed a photograph taken by Lillian Blake at her San Francisco studio in September 1914. I would love to have this one for the book. U’Ren describes it as a “clipping,” evidence that Miss Rappe had been in San Francisco at the time…

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