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“They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you've been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard, nonetheless. And it's the quality of that bite that teaches you how connected you were to that thing, and where you stood in relation to it, then and now.”

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Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz, born on March 6, 1938, is a renowned American photographer known for his ability to capture the beauty and emotion in everyday life, particularly in his street photography work in New York City. more

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