Bob Kerns was a Professor of photography at Syracuse University's Newhouse College of Communication while I was there from 1968 'til 1972. He was never my teacher, but he was a teacher to my close friend Michael Maginn. Maginn insisted that I make contact with him. We developed a nice relationship. One day, I told him that I was in a slump. He said, "Great, now I have a beginning student, an advanced student, and a night student that all told me the same thing. I want each one of you to bring me 50 color pictures of a match."