Avedon's Childhood Greatness

i discovered this in the book survival of the prettiest by nancy etcoff:

"one of photographer richard avedon's first snapshots was of his seven-year-old sister louise. the nine-year-old avedon was so entranced by her that he taped the negative to his skin and had the sun burn it into his shoulder."

crazy awesome. now if only i could figure out how to do this without giving myself skin cancer.....