Where’s My Eyeball?

Which way to go? Copyright 2019 Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images

Put an Eyeball on It.

That’s what one of my first photo bosses called a loupe, an eyeball. His eyeball would normally be sitting on, or near the light table. Occasionally it would go missing, at which point he’d ask the room, “Where’s my eyeball, dad?”

Bob Jarboe was a photojournalist, an Associated Press staff photographer based in Des Moines. He managed the AP’s photo report across the entire states…