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Alabama author helps revive legacy of forgotten photographer
It’s an unusual relationship – between a soft-spoken, Alabama-based graphic artist and a long-dead New York photographer who once was renowned for “cheesecake” pinups of showgirls and portraits of Hollywood stars, but who has faded into almost complete obscurity. And yet, Clyde Adams can’t get photographer Murray Korman out of his head, driving Adams along a nearly-decade-long quest to document Korman’s remarkable life. The result: two books and a website about Korman, which resurrect the photographer’s extraordinary catalogue of black and white images that, for a half-century, gathered dust in a New York closet. “He really is a fascinating character, and his story was almost lost,” Adams said. Alabama author…