The local newspapers report the death on Aug. 21 of Horst Tappe, who
took celebrated photographs of Pound as well as many other writers and
painters. He was born in Westphalia in Germany in 1938 and moved to
Montreux, Switzerland, in 1965. He took the picture of the aged Pound facing
the antic statue of James Joyce in Fluntern Cemetery in Zurich, and also the
one of Pound and Olga Rudge, sitting in a gondola in Venice in 1962, that
appears on the jacket of Anne Conover's book about them.
    According to the newspapers, Tappe's brother inherits his archive of
more than 5,000 images of the famous. The brother is to decide where to
place them.
    There is a funeral service at 15:00 local time tomorrow (Aug. 26) at the
cemetery in Clarens near Montreux. Tappe's friends Vladimir and Vera Nabokov
are also buried there.

Cheers.
Paul Montgomery
Lausanne, Switzerland