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COMPOSITION
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is likeconsulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.”
--Edward Weston
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until thepicture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases myeye. -Andre Kertesz, Margaret R. Weiss, Saturday Review – World, January
1974
There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there werewe would be able to put all the information into a computer and wouldcome out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have tocompose by the seat of your pants. -Arnold Newman, "Interviews With
Master Photographers :
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COMPOSITION
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting thelaws of gravity before going for a walk.”
--Edward Weston
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the pictureelements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye. -Andre Kertesz,
Margaret R. Weiss, Saturday Review – World, January 1974
There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would beable to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a
masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of yourpants. -Arnold Newman, "Interviews With Master Photographers :
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you
create more purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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Center or Point of Interest
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Center or Point of Interest
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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“Putting four edges around a collection of information or factstransforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it’s
something else…a new world is created” Gary Winogrand
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Elliot Erwitt
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Lee Friedlander
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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Avoid mergers
• Photographs collapse 3d space into 2d space• Photographs create compositional relationships
we might not recognize while in the act ofphotographing
• Mergers-awkward combinations oflines/shapes/subjects as a result of collapsing 3dspace to a 2d image
• Strategies to avoid mergers:– Photographer moves– Subject moves– Background moves
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Examples of Mergers
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Examples of Mergers
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Playing with Mergers
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Elliot Erwitt
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Playing with Mergers
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Playing with Mergers
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"Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders."- John Baldessari
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Mergers: things to watch for• Background objects can merge with the
primary foreground subject. (For example, apower pole can "grow" out of your uncle'shead.)
• Strong colors or similar colors of objectsbehind or near the main subject can mergewith the subject. A white hat might mergewith a light background and all butdisappear.
• Remember, mergers are often removed bysimply moving the camera or subject
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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Balance
• Symmetrical balance– Two matching subjects in size or shape– Symmetrical balance distributes visual
elements evenly in an image.• Asymmetrical balance
– A heavier presence balanced against a lighterpresence
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Symmetrical Balance
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Diane Arbus
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Roy DeCarava
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Asymmetrical Balance
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Asymmetrical Balance
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Asymmetrical Balance
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Asymmetrical Balance
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Asymmetrical Balance
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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Keep it simple: an empty frame
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Keep it simple: an empty frame (inthis case ‘empty’ is complicated)
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Keep it simple: an empty frame
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Keep it simple: an empty frame
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Keep it simple: shallow depth of field
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Keep it Simple - Shallow Depth of Field
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Keep it simple: shallow depth of field
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Keep it simple: shallow depth of field
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Keep it simple: shallow depth of field
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Elliot Erwitt, NYC 1950
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Elliot Erwitt, Ernst Hass 1955
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Matthew Tischler
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DEEP DEPTH OF FIELD - Walker Evans
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Martin Parr
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Martin Parr
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Martin Parr
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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Frame within a frame
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Frame within a frame
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Robert Frank, Butte, Montana
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Robert Frank, New Orleans, 1955
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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SUBJECT PLACEMENT
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Rule of Thirds
Use the rule of thirds to help with
Horizon line placement
Strong lines placement
Single subject placement
Main subject/secondary subject placement
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Rule of Thirds
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Rule of Thirds
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Rule of Thirds
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Rule of Thirds
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Rule of Thirds
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Rule of Thirds
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Rule of Thirds
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Rule of Thirds
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Rule of Thirds
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The Golden Ratio / Fibonocci Spiral
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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Use Strong Lines
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“This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me theessence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being asimultaneous coalition – an organic coordination of visual elements. “- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Use strong lines
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Use strong lines
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Use strong lines
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Use strong lines
Always beconscious of wherelines are enteringyour frame: fromwhich side? Fromwhich corner?Which of theseimages is mostsuccessful?
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Strong Lines / Patterns (repeated)
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Strong Lines / Patterns (repeated)
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Patterns and Repetition
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Use strong lines
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Use strong lines
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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LIGHT AND SHADOW
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LIGHT AND SHADOW - Imogen Cunningham
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LIGHT AND SHADOW - Imogen Cunningham
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LIGHT AND SHADOW - Imogen Cunningham
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LIGHT AND SHADOW
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SHAPES
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Texture
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Texture
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Texture -- Aaron Siskind
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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Use the edge of the frame
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Use the edge of the frame
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Use the edge of the frame
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Use the edge of the frame
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Compositional Guidelines• These are guidelines, not rules. Understanding them will help you create more
purposeful compositions.– Center or Point of Interest / Subject Placement– Framing 3-D world into a 2D Photograph– Avoid mergers– Balance
• Symmetrical-even• Assymetrical-a heavier presence vs a lighter/foreground vs background
– Keep it simple• Empty frame• Shallow depth of field
– Use a frame within a frame– Rule of thirds– Use strong lines– Shapes / Light & Shadows / Texture– Frame tension– Vantage point
• Birds eye• Worms eye
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Vantage point: your angle of view
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Vantage point: your angle of view
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Vantage point: birds eye
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Vantage point: birds eye
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“In order to accustom people to seeing from new viewpoints it is essential to takephotographs of everyday, familiar subjects from completely unexpected vantagepoints and in completely unexpected positions….one should shoot the subject fromseveral positions, as if encompassing it--not peer through one keyhole”- Rodchenko
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Vantage point: close up/abstraction
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Vantage point: close up/abstraction
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Vantage point: close up/abstraction
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Vantage point: worms eye
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Vantage point: worms eye
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And one last thing…Consider placing a moving subject so
they move into the image
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Experimentationis key, trydifferent
approachesconstantly
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Andy Goldsworthy
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Experimentation is key, trydifferent approaches constantly
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Experimentation is key, trydifferent approaches constantly
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Todd Hido Roaming
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Martin Parr from Bad Weather
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Martin Parr from Bad Weather
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Walead Beshty
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James Welling from Torsos
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Strategies: Composition and ShootingHow do I balance these ideas?
• Shooting with a preplanned idea when photographingThings you may be able to plan ahead:– location– Props– time of day– vantage point– artificial lighting– Make a list of things to shoot
• Improvising in a rapid situation– Keeping subject at center of frame– Moving frame around with subject somewhere in picture
• Editing a group of images down to ones that have compositional strength– Shoot in quantity, edit for quality– Constant experimentation to ensure a variety of images, more chances for success
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Make a list….
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What composition elements are these photographers using?
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Elliot Erwitt
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Roy DeCarava
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Robert Frank
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William Eggleston
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Candida Höfer
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Roy DeCarava
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Elliot Erwitt
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Andreas Gursky
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Lee Friedlander
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Elliot Erwitt
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Lee Friedlander
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Elliot Erwitt
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