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I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.
Wendy Ewald
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Wendy Ewald
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 1
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Detroit
Michigan
Wendy Taylor Ewald
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