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On the Sharp Edge of Chance
Some cities, like Paris, are soaked in memory. Walk down almost any street and you’ll see a plaque: here, in this building in July 1778, Mozart’s mother passed away. Or, at this spot, in August 1944, these ten resistance fighters were assassinated. Or: here is where Picasso lived for eighteen…
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Then and Now
In earlier days, some forty years ago, I’d pack a small knapsack. At the bottom was a camera bag stuffed with some fifty rolls of black and white film and two small cameras. At the top of the little nylon sack, like an afterthought, were an embarrassingly small number of…
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A Guest Blogger from 2097
Mittelman took this image at the NYC Marathon in November 2022, exactly 75 years ago this month.
His journal entry from that overcast day is both enigmatic and revealing: “I cannot take much credit for any of these photos: I am simply the channel for their birth. I press the…
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