Dear Audrey Antler,
I apologize for my wrong assumption about David Armstrong -- whose “Summer of ’79” show at the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown (25 May -14 June 2007), which included several photographs picturing Cookie and John Waters during that P-town season, led me (and others) to suspect that it was Armstrong who took those great photos. Judging from Max's age, they look like they were taken in the late '70s. But of course Cookie was photographed by a lot of people throughout her life.
You probably know that another photo from your contact sheet of images taken on that day, picturing Cookie and Max laughing in a field, was used for the frontispiece of Cookie's posthumously published 1990 book "Garden of Ashes," as well as in in the Details magazine 1990 homage article "For Cookie," with reminiscences by Glenn O'Brien and Annie Flanders. That photo too has been miscredited over the years, due to Details crediting it to Stephen DeMateo, who might have just supplied it to Details. "Garden of Ashes" has no photo credit for it.
Anyway, it's wonderful to know that you actually took all those fantastic photographs. Thank you so much for sharing them on the Facebook page, "Provincetown in the 70s."
-Katsumi