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Florence Owen Thompson and the Birds

By TPP | Published: August 29, 2007
Writing a book review (to come) of Eamon McCabe’s ‘The Making of Great Photographs’, I came across this: “Photographers today still work in the same way, many spending weeks getting to know the people they hope to photograph.” Dorothea Lange notoriously spent scant minutes at the pea pickers’ camp, taking only 6 pictures, including the [...]
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