Will the Real Scelsi Please Say "Cheese"?

Apparently this is *really* the only one available. I heard a story that tells once people tried to make photographs of him in a rehearsal, and the eletric power kept on having problems while they tried it. Finally they managed to make pictures, but when the film was developed everything was burnt. Really, no other picture seems to be available.

I like the idea of a famous person with no pictures available. Scelsi or say Blanchot may have been part of the last generation, at least in the West, for whom this was imaginable. This is a saddening thought. (I don't count mysterious identities like Pynchon)

There are, in fact, an amazing three, count them, three photographs of Scelsi of which I am aware. I'm not sure why, but I believe the photo you have is authentic; it may be from an early publication of the 1st string quartet. (I recall reading that there was such a photograph.) I have seen two other photos, one of him at the age of 3, in the booklet of an Ina memoire vive disc (OP, sorry, no cat. #) of Pranam I, etc.; the other is in fact a photo taken at a rehearsal in the last year or two of his life, in the Kairos disc of the 4th quartet etc. (still in print).