The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover
TRAILER
Watch here
The dramatic story of one of the great art scandals of modern times.
This is the tale of the photographs of O. Winston Link and the feeding frenzy that these extraordinary images have left behind.
O. Winston Link took elegant black-and-white nighttime photographs of the last of the great steam locomotives, as they chugged majestically across small-town America in the 1950s.
Link married Conchita Mendoza when he was 73 and she 48. What happened next could be a plot taken from a Stephen King novel in what became an extraordinary public trial (led by the Westchester DA, Jenine Pirro).
According to the prosecution, Conchita successfully marketed the photographs for increasing profit while becoming sexually entangled with another man, Ed Hayes, all the time keeping Link captive and incommunicado in his basement darkroom …
Or is the true story that O. Winston Link himself was the great manipulator?
A Film by PAUL YULE
-
- √ Nominated for a Grierson Award
“… a fascinating investigation into personality, crime, marriage, contemporary art, and the ever-malleable nature of truth.” The New York Times
For availability, licensing and other enquiries:
Paul Yule / Berwick Universal Pictures
