If my assistant had arrived when I took this photo, she could have taken a picture of me in the act of laundry folding while holding the phone between my head and my shoulder.
Beck took his last photo in Zermatt in 1890, the same day his nephew (and assistant) Eduard Goehrs, 27, and two guides climbed the Matterhorn with a camera.
And at the time the photo was taken, he was a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, who was working as an assistant to the Magnum photographers.