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• This made things a lot easier. With the bar set so high I was free to walk right under it.
• As is often the case with Winogrand he catches a moment of interaction which is also a moment of alienation and separation. She is keeping him at arm’s length. This is one of any number of possible transactions going on, one of which also happens to be the taking of this photograph.
• diCorcia’s picture seals the world in the instant it was made. The cinematic quality of this phase of diCorcia’s work has often been noted, but the pictures, actually, are not like film stills — they are still films.
• As one would expect from someone of Shahn’s leftist allegiances the accordionist is not relying on charity; he is more stubbornly committed to the larger struggle of earning a living and getting a place for himself in the world.
• His time there, he repeatedly insisted, was ‘an absolute tragedy’. One door closed; another slammed in his face.