Betty White’s chance to stamp the American post “Yes” was easy for the photographer Dale Stephanos, who is based in Boston.
He remembers in an interview with today: “I said” Yes “before they are ended from the sentence.
White died in 2021 at the age of 99. Now, the late actress, known for her roles in “The Golden Girls” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, is honored with a seal forever issued by the American Postal Service starting March 27.
Contractive entertainment professional stamps celebrate and invite animals, a skillful element in Stefanos design.
For Stefanos, who spent contracts to create pictures of outlets like Rolling Stone, Mad Magazine, and Sports, Petty White’s stamp was particularly meaningful. The photographer learned that he depicted the seal, was approved a few days before the death of his mother.
“This is now a very personal piece for me,” he says. ((My mother) got her son’s vision really do something wonderful. “
Stefanos remembers the gathering around a TV with his family to watch White on TV. His grandmother was also named, and in her last days, his mother, despite being in a bad health condition, has also seen the design of viral.
Stefanos realized something familiar to the White brand mix of intelligence and warmth – the attributes I mentioned at home.
He says: “She reminded me of my mother. She had this real ability to say something, and then the unknown will fall, and people will be like, do you really say that?” “She is one of these people who could escape from things that many people could not have been because she was an older lady, and she had that sweet smile, and she was a delivery – it didn’t mean.
For stamps, Stefanus extracted from A. White photo taken by Kwako Alston in 2010. Alston White’s image in the last part of her career, wearing red, shows bright eyes with her signing spark.
“It is just a wonderful picture – a sweet spot in its old years.” “I used this as a reference and then changed the colors and tried to make it more manual than the image.”
Stephanos’s image is a flowering image of white that wears purple instead of red to reflect a deeper part of White’s legacy.
“The purple is the color of the protest. She had such a positive personality. It was never angry, although the protest is a form of anger,” he says.
Even the earring he chose for white was carefully chosen.
Stephanos sought a great way to reflect Betty White’s invitation in the nature after her drug requested part of the design. One morning, Stefanus noticed his wife’s printed wife and shiny slots. He looked down and realized that he drew a claw print, and a idea clicked.
He says, “I was like,” Oh, wait for a moment. We can only do claw print points. ”
It was eventually approved by small but meaningful details and became part of the final character, which can be seen on the right White ear in the picture.
Stefanus is considering in stamps as “small pieces” that “wear our correspondence.”
“I know when I get something with an interesting seal, take a second, and I look at it and appreciate it. I think it is one of the great things that humans discovered: a way to communicate this way.”
It is part of the reason that the White seal means a lot for him.
“This is the only character that I will use for the rest of my life,” says laughing. “I will be very hateful with this.”
When asked about the type of message he sent with her, his answer is certain.
“It was a positive, funny, smart and bright light,” he says. “I think anything you want to send with a kind of happy positive tone (seal) will be completely appropriate.”