Quoting Ansel Adams, preface to Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen, 1974

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on the old dry plates of sixty years ago … . I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. And they in turn seem to be aware of me.

— Ansel Adams, preface to Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & Citizen, 1974

8:42pm on October 4, 2024 from Turkey.


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