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If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.
Tod Papageorge
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Tod Papageorge
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: August 1
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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
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