![]() ![]() Stationed on the Pacific island of Saipan, he bartered with members of his company for their beer allotments and traded the brew in turn for personal time in the photo lab. Withers likes to say that he went in the Army during World War II a picture taker and came out a photographer. "I got a visionary skill of looking at big images in small view, like looking through a camera," he said. His mother, a seamstress, would often send the young boy off to the dry goods store with the charge of picking up spools of thread to precisely match various materials. You might say that Withers' cultivated his eye for a picture first through the eye of a needle. But it was Willie Mitchell who carried around at night at the different social things and let him see, watch, learn and know." A lot of people don't know Willie Mitchell. " Willie Mitchell really developed him seriously in the recording industry. "I remember when Al Green, he didn't want no pictures, that little ol' country boy," Withers recalled. ![]()
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