Max Fallcaster, Bewick's
father-in-law, was an architect's photographer. Before the VUE Max had
illustrated a classic textbook series on European rural buildings. After the VUE
he studied
ornithology and photographed nests. He is now planning a textbook on the
buildings of man and bird in symbiosis, storks on Bavarian chimneys and swallows
on English country houses. It may be with his father-in-law in mind that Bewick
photographed these pigeon roosts.
As it was, Max Fallcaster watched his
son-in-law's slides with critical interest, offering a geographical position for
Bewick's whereabouts based on his knowledge of nests
and vernacular architecture.
