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"Most of my photographs are compassionate, gentle, and personal. They tend to let the viewer see himself. They tend not to preach. And they tend not to pose as art"
-Bruce Davidson

SOUTH PHILADELPHIA HEAT WAVE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania July 1993
Nikon F4S, Nikkor 105/2.8 macro

Temperatures were hovering around 100 degrees F. The background obviously was provided by an open fire hydrant.
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PRINCETON CAMPUS AT DAWN
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 1991
Nikon 8008 from tripod, Nikkor 28/2.8

This nearly exact scene appeared in an opening scene of the movie, Scent of A Woman.
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BROADWAY AT 42ND STREET
Chess Hustlers, New York City 1992
Nikon 8008, Nikkor 28/2.8

The man standing on the far right runs the tables. The players on the right are hustling.
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WINE DRUNK
Trenton, New Jersey 1992
Nikon F4S, Nikkor 105/2.8 macro

James Hampton...He sells Trentonian newspapers on the corner, eats at the soup kitchen on Escher Street; drinks his wine in the park; and at night he sleeps at the mission.
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WHISKEY CREEK
Dania, Florida 1998
Nikon F4S, Nikkor 50/1.8

He was alone on the creek playing Bluegrass

SANGAMON COUNTY, IL
Near Petersberg, Illinois 1993
Nikon, Nikkor lens?

Can you see the two cows?

GINA
Wildwood, New Jersey 1993
Nikon F4S, Nikkor 105/2.8 macro

This photo reminds me of Edward Weston's "Torso of Neil" about which John Szarkowski wrote: "...The profile of the body... draws a beautiful line. The effect of this line depends on its closeness to the frame, the baseline against which its undulation is measured. A teacher of drawing once pointed out to his students, in trying to persuade them to use the whole sheet of paper, that a peanut in the bottom of a barrel was merely a spot, whereas, a peanut in a penny matchbox was a piece of sculpture." (LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS By John Szarkowski, THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books Little, Brown and Company Boston)