Lookback: the one that got away

From 2010:

Apropos of the front cover of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, James Breig, a reader of this blog, writes with a query: “Impertinent question: Is the cover photo reversed (Armstrong’s pocket handkerchief is on the right side of his jacket)? If so, was it done deliberately by the photographer or book designer, or inadvertently?”

My jaw dropped when I read this e-mail, and I immediately set to investigating….

Read the whole thing here.