At this point, I'm bang in the middle of it, and it's super! Being a famed photographer is, of course, most valorising, and I won't pretend otherwise though I know one should not get too big headed.
In any case, we all beg for recognition : we want to be acknowledged by our parents, our children, by the family at large, and then, by the general public.
But to make a success of one's life as a human, well, that's another story altogether.