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	Regarding Heoes Yousuf Karsh 2009, David R. Godine 192 pp List price: $50.00	Yousuf Karsh's life-long ambition was to search for a form within a face, one that could become a symbol for a life that was purposeful, meaningful, and generally virtuous. 'I speak with some experience when I say that I have rarely left the company of accomplished men and women without feeling that they had in them real sincerity, integrity – yes, and sometimes vanity of course – and always a sense of high purpose.' In his sixty-year career, he seldom wavered from this goal, even when fame and fortune came his way. More »
	The Life of Yousuf Karsh 2008, Yale University Art Gallery 6½" x 9¼", 448 pp List price: $35.00	Yousuf Karsh is acknowledged to be the twentieth century's leading portrait photographer. His iconic images of Bogart, Hemingway, Churchill, the Kennedys, Auden, Castro, Einstein, the Clintons, Khrushchev, Casals, and Elizabeth II inhabit the mind's eye of anyone familiar with photographic history. A refugee from the ethnic cleansing of Turkish Armenians in 1916, Karsh made his home in Boston and Ottawa but travelled the globe during his sixty-year career, photographing political leaders, celebrities, monarchs, and movie stars. He died in 2002, aged 94. He left a legacy of 50,000 portraits. Read more »
	Karsh: A Biography in Images, Yousuf Karsh 2004, MFA Publications 9.5" x 10.25", 208 pgs. List price: $40.00	Foreword by Malcolm Rogers, 150 duotone plates - soft bound. Karsh: A Biography In Images is a full revision of the 1996 60-year retrospective of his work and brings that popular catalogue back into print in an affordable paperback format. This new edition covers the photographer's career with greater breadth than its previous incarnation, adding works from his early experiments and his photojournalism commissions in Canada. Karsh's reputation as one of the most sought-after portrait photographers of the 20th century is well established. A roll call of his subjects is a veritable who's who of the modern age--Winston Churchill, Jacqueline Kennedy, Pablo Picasso, Walt Disney, Elizabeth Taylor and Albert Einstein, to name just a few--and this book features many of these figures, in some of the most recognized images of our time. But added to the portraits are a number of lesser-known or previously unpublished photographs--early figure studies, atmospheric views of the Ottawa theatre and scenes of wheat fields, city streets and factories across Canada. With its long autobiographical essay and extensive captions for each photo, many of them new to this edition, Karsh: A Biography In Images is both an elegant celebration and an indispensable overview of a life lived in photography.
	Yousuf Karsh: Heroes of Light and Shadow, Yousuf Karsh 2001, Stoddart Publications, 240 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)
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	Gertrude Kasebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs, Gertrude Kasebier 1992, Harry N. Abrams 12" x 9.25", 192 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)	"This is the first book about the pioneering photographer Gertrude Kasebier (1852-1934). In middle age, with three grown children, she began to study painting and photography, set up a portrait studio on New York's Fifth Avenue, and became one of the finest and best-known portraitists and photographic artists of her day. 116 illustrations."
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	Peter Keetman: Volkswagenwek 1953, Peter Keetman 2004, Kerber Christof Verlag 16" x 12", 174 pp List price: $85.00	"In 1953, Peter Keetman spent a week at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg. The result was a series of exceptionally clear, almost abstractly detailed photographs that document the entire production process of the VW Beetle. Storage stacks of shiny metal bumpers look like so many modernist sculptures; car bodies hovering above the assembly line retrospectively form a surreal Pop Art montage. This oversize publication reproduces the Volkswagenwerk series in full, in their original size, together with texts that refer both to this series and to Keetman's greater oeuvre. Keetman was known throughout his career as photographer of systemically conceived picture series on themes that included close-ups of water and oil drops, a style of working he developed as a member of Fotoform. Fotoform, a German movement of the 1950s of which Keetman was a primary proponent, was critical in the development of German photography as it is today: the group's "subjective photography" combined scientific objectivity with abstraction." - 90 duotone.
	Volkswagen: A Week at the Factory, Peter Keetman 1993, Chronical Books 8.75" x 8", 96 pp. Softbound (used copies available)	For the lover of Volkswagens, photography, or both, this elegant little book includes many wonderful photographs that document aspects of a Volkswagen Beetle factory. The black-and-white photographs are rich in formal and journalistic integrity. Essays by Armin Kley, Dirk Nishen, and Rolf Sachsse
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	Seydou Keita, Seydou Keita 1997, Scalo Verlag 11.75" x 9/75", 288 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)	"What began as simple curiosity blossomed into an object of national pride; when Seydou Keita bought a camera to take pictures of his family, neighbors assumed his services were for hire and enlisted him to take portraits of themselves and their homes, turning a carpenter into a photographer and a hobby into artistic expression. In such a way did the self-taught Keita become the official photographer of Mali from 1962 to 1977, based almost solely on his impeccable reputation for quality and originality that developed by word of mouth. This stunning collection of 206 black-and white-portraits illustrates Keita's pride in his country and his gift for capturing the personalities of his subjects. His aim was to create the most natural settings and poses for the people in front of the lens, putting them at ease and gently nudging them into surrendering their inhibitions. Keita utilized a wide variety of props to further this goal, including bicycles, telephones, radios, and musical instruments. He also kept a variety of clothing on hand--both traditional and European--to help his subjects achieve a desired look or style. What comes across most clearly in these photos is the beauty of the people; Keita brilliantly exposes their essence by focusing on their images."

	Ozymandias, Thomas Kellner 2003, Ffotogallery 10" x 13.75", 64 pp. List price: $45.50 Order this book	Essay by A.D. Coleman 24 color illustrations Ozymandias, the 64 page, full colour publication is Thomas Kellner’s second monograph and includes an illuminating text by A.D. Coleman, one of the most influential and imaginative international writers on photography. In his essay, Structure Implies and Movement Possesses, Coleman finds precedents in popular culture which parallel the comedy of Kellner’s playful works, and in a much more sinister context, considers the artist’s work against the backdrop of the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York. - publisher Read more about this book
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	Venezia Michael Kenna 2010, Nazraeli Press 12" x 13", 64 pp List price: $75.00	This beautifully produced book brings together a collection of haunting images quietly made by Michael Kenna over the last 30 years, many of which are published here for the first time. Arguably the most influential photographer of his generation, Michael Kenna is the subject of over 35 monographs. More »
	Retrospective Michael Kenna 2009, Bibliotheque Nationale de France 10" x 12¼", 231 pp List price: $85.00	This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Bibliotheque nationale de France, shines new light on the work of the English photographer Michael Kenna. More »
	Mont St. Michel Michael Kenna 2007, Nazraeli Press 8" x 12", 84 pp List price: $75.00	The small tidal island of Mont St Michel is situated just off the Normandy coast, connected to the mainland by a single causeway. Its abbey rises like a mirage, high above the sea, on this craggy, rocky perch. It is a spectacular sight, and one that Kenna has been drawn to many times over the years. More about this book »
	Michael Kenna: Retrospective Two Michael Kenna 2004, Nazraeli Press 12" x 13", 172 pp List price: $ 75.00	Published as a companion book to the artist’s Twenty Year Retrospective, Michael Kenna: Retrospective Two presents an overview of Kenna’s landscape photographs made between 1994 and 2004. ... - publisher Read more about this book
	Ratcliffe Power Station, Michael Kenna 2004, Nazraeli Press 12" x 13", 64 pp. List price: $65.00	... The Ratcliffe photographs take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the photographer and his subject. A brilliant manipulator of half-light, Kenna’s grainy, spatial topography epitomizes the gray skies of Northern England that were the ubiquitous backdrop to his childhood. Kenna’s Ratcliffe photographs create the impression of an atmospherically foggy day, registering the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant characteristic of his work. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper, Ratcliffe Power Station is published in a first edition of 3,000 copies. - publisher Read more about this book
	Calais Lace, Michael Kenna 2003, Nazraeli Press 12" x 10", 92 pp. L ist price: $60.00	"Since 1993 Michael Kenna has visited Calais many times and wandered at length throughout the town, photographing its urban landscapes and its proud industrious heart: the lace factories. On his first visit he met Annette Haudiquet, then head curator of the Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle. It was during this meeting that the idea for the book Calais Lace, and the exhibition it accompanies, was born. Pursuing the memories that still haunt the old laceworks of Calais, Michael Kenna’s photographs capture a past deeply ingrained in the life of this town. The artist’s own childhood in a working-class neighbourhood near Liverpool, together with his work on the Lancashire and Yorkshire cotton mills, led him to develop a language specific to a geography of disaster, the poetics of working-class escapism and the outdoors as a refuge. In Calais Lace, Kenna capture’s the spirit of this town and marks out the character-traits of a hardworking people." - publisher - 52 duotone plates.
	Le Notre's Gardens Michael Kenna 1999, Ram Publications 11" x 10.25", 80 pgs. List price: $49.95	"The gardens of Andre Le Ntre shore up the essential configurations of seventeenth-century French aesthetics. Michael Kenna approaches these landscapes with fresh insight that carries the viewer into an elegant world of pure light, form, and line, while following the aesthetic discipline of Le Ntre's gardens. From the legendary Versailles to the newly added Fountainebleu, Kenna explores the ten most important gardens credited to the brilliance of Andre Le Ntre."
	Nightwork, Michael Kenna 2000, Nazraeli Press 12.5" x 12", 96 pgs. List price: $100.00	"Kenna has more than mastered the technical aspects of night photography. His photographs are well crafted, beautiful images which both engage and challenge the viewer with their poetic sensuality and psychological tension. Through his photographs, Kenna shows us locations that may be familiar by day and transforms them into evocative and mysterious places." Taken from the preface by Deborah Klochko
	A Twenty Year Retrospective, Michael Kenna 2002 , Nazraeli Press 12.5" x 12" List price: $65.00	Reprint of the 1994 edition. Essay by Peter C. Bunnell, Introduction by Ruth Bernhard "Looking at Michael Kenna's photographs, one is struck by how he manages to imbue the familiar, natural world with a deepend harmony that invites meditation. His photography is a balanced art, not in the sense that it is stabilized or moderate in its effects, but that opposed qualities are joined in a scrupulously controlled performance." Taken from an essay by Peter C. Bunnell Note: New edition now available.
	Japan, Michael Kenna 2003, Nazraeli Press 12.6" x 11"81", 108 pgs. List price: $75.00	Introduction by Kohtaro Iizawa, 96 tritone plates. "Michael Kenna’s photographs have long inspired words such as mysterious, elegant, and hauntingly beautiful – adjectives that likewise describe the Japanese landscape. The photographs in Kenna’s important new monograph, Japan, are the result of an ideal pairing of artist and subject. Kenna has had a large following in Japan ever since his first exhibition there in 1987. His many subsequent exhibitions and publications in Japan have provided him with ample opportunities to visit and photograph. During the past several years, as this project began to take shape, Kenna’s trips became more frequent and intense. The resulting images are stunning. Superbly printed in tritone, Japan is hardbound in red cloth and presented in a Japanese folding slipcase." Text in Japanese and English by Kotaro Iizawa. Publication coincides with a series of exhibitions in the US and Japan. -- Note: 2nd edition now available.
	Easter Island, Michael Kenna 2002, Nazraeli Press 12.5" x 11.65" List price: $60.00	Michael Kenna has photographed Easter Island over a period of two years, creating a powerful new body of work which pays homage to the beauty of the island and the continuing mystery of its past. Kenna selected forty images from this project for publication in Easter Island.
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	Still Robb Kendrick 2008, University Of Texas Press 7¾ x 9¾", 232 pp List price: $50.00	The cowboy may well be the quintessential American icon. Robb Kendrick has been photographing cowboys for twenty-five years, creating a magnificent artistic record that recalls the work of earlier photographers such as Edward S. Curtis, whose portraits of Native Americans have become classics. Kendrick even uses an early photographic process—tintype—to create one-of-a-kind photographs whose nineteenth-century appearance underscores how little twenty-first-century cowboys' ways of working and types of gear and dress have changed since the first cowboy photographs were made more than a century ago. Read more »

	Antarctica, Explorer Series Vol. 1, Pat and Rosemarie Keough 2003, Nahanni Productions 17.25" x 13.5", 336 pp. List price: $3,000.00 order this book	"Pat and Rosemarie Keough's Antarctic photographs comprise one of the most stunning and diverse portfolios ever assembled about this great white continent. The variety of their imagery encompasses wildlife, landscapes, abstract patterns in nature and touches of man from the 'heroic era' through the heyday of whaling to the present." ... publisher Read more about this book

	Fantasies Lisa Kereszi 2008, Damiani 11" x 9½", 96 pp List price: $45.00	When Rudolph Giuliani's administration cracked down on Times Square strip clubs in the 1990s, a whole new burlesque movement was born in New York, concentrating less on the strip and more on the tease. The young New York photographer Lisa Kereszi, then an assistant to Nan Goldin, was there with her camera to catch it all happening. She began by shooting Show World, a club that was in the process of being closed down by the new laws. ... More about this book »
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	Andre Kertesz (Master Photography Series) Andre Kertesz 1997, Aperture 8.29" x 8.29", 96 pgs. List price: $12.50	" Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), was a highly original artist. Eschewing the dogma of schools and movements, he was guided only by his intuition, drawing on his private life for inspiration. His quest for authenticity led to the invention of an innovative visual language."
	Andre Kertesz: Sixty Years of Photography, 1912-1972 Andre Kertesz 1972, Viking Press (out of print, used copies available)	Listed as one of the top 100 photography books.
	Andre Kertesz Laszlo Pierre, Beke Borhan 2000, Bulfinch 10.72" x 8.47", 368 pgs. List price: $29.00	"This important monograph is the first paperback to present a complete overview of the work of Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz (1894-1985), one of the undisputed masters of modern photography. Originally published in hardcover format in 1994, it is now in an affordable paperback edition. Author Pierre Borhan covers three essential periods of Kertesz's work: Hungary (1912-1925), France (1925-1936), and the United States (1936-1985). A full section is devoted to his famous "distortions" and another to his color works. Each section is prefaced by a critical text written by an international specialist. This stunning book is a work of reference and a valuable source of information, but it is also a dramatic and luxurious tribute to one of the masters of twentieth-century photography."
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	Here Comes Everybody Chris Killip 2009, Thames & Hudson 13" x 9½ ", 96 pp List price: $65.00	Chris Killip is one of the most influential photographers, curators, and teachers to come out of the United Kingdom. His images of the northeast of England in the late 1970s and 1980s powerfully evoke the human disaster of de-industrialization and Thatcherism. They formed part of a body of work by a generation of photographers including Paul Graham and Martin Parr that firmly established documentary photography within an artistic context. More »

	Paris + Klein, William Klein 2003, Distributed Art Publishers 13.68" x 9.98", 346 pgs. List price: $75.00	"William Klein always dreamed of living in Paris, like Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein, and other like-minded artists and writers. In 1948, stationed by the United States Army in Paris, he stayed--and fled his family and America to become a painter. He quickly found another family and recognition for his talent. Today, one is tempted, like critic Anthony Lane, to say that he is "the American in Paris." PARIS + KLEIN gathers together hundreds of photographs shot by Klein from the time he first picked up a camera in the 1960s until he put it down, momentarily, to put together this book. In his signature color and black-and-white compositions, jostled to the brim with more information than a single camera lens was ever expected to take in, we find: men in the street, celebrities, demonstrations, fashion, the police, politics, races, the métro, soccer, death. . .The whole life of a capital seen through the lively, acidic, melancholic, humorous, ironical, and moving eyes of William Klein."
	New York, 1954-1955, William Klein 1996, Distributed Art Publishers 13.5" x 10.25" ,254 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)	In 1954 Klein returned to the city of his youth after living the life of a painter in Paris since the end of World War II. Vogue art director Alexander Liberman had agreed to pay him to photograph the city for a few months, though he was almost totally lacking in knowledge of or experience with a camera. The result was a collection of exuberant, cinematic images of the city's people and neighborhoods-by Klein's own description "pseudo-ethnography, parody, and Dada"-that Conde Nast never saw fit to publish. Reminiscent of Weegee in their grittiness, but with more humor and less sensationalism, and of Robert Frank in their unity of personal vision but not as bleak, the photographs are as vibrant today as when they were taken. Klein did publish a collection of these photos in Paris in 1956 in a book that is now a much-sought-after collector's item, but the man who went on to become a successful fashion and documentary photographer never saw this unique series widely exhibited or published in his home country-until now. - Eric Bryant, "Library Journal", Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

	Saguoros, Mark Klett 2007, Radius Books 15" x 12" 75pp List price: $80.00	Mark Klett has been photographing the deserts of the American West, in particular the beauties of the Sonoran landscape-a desert that sprawls across southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Along with coyotes and tumbleweeds, saguaro cacti are one of the most recognizable (and stereotypical) features of this region. More »
	Third Views, Second Sights, Mark Klett 2004, Museum of New Mexico Press 11.5" x 8.75", 256 pp List price: $60.00	Interactive CD included Third Views, Second Sights presents forty-three pairings from the third survey, documenting two periods of geologic and environmental changes while exploring changing human perceptions of landscape. Read more about this book
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	Invasion 68, Prague, Josef Koudelka 2008, Aperture 9½ x 12½", 296 pp List price: $60.00	In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a thirty-year-old acclaimed theater photographer who never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring. More »
	Theatre du Temps, Josef Koudelka 2003, ACTES SUD 8.75" x 11.75", 56 pp. List price: $120.00 (inquire about availability)	"The legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka has just added another volume of terrific panoramic photographs to his bibliography. Koudelka, who was born in Moravia (within the Czech Republic) in 1938, first won international acclaim for his poignant b&w studies of gypsy communities in the 1960s. His surreptitious documentation of the invasion of Prague by Warsaw Pact armies set him apart, and ultimately got him into the prestigious Magnum Agency. For years now he has been working with a panoramic camera, slowly putting out stunning images that often finding their way into books of limited availability. Theatre du Temps contains a mere 25 images, gorgeously printed, of work made in Rome over the past three years."
	The Exiles, Josef Koudelka 1997, Thames and Hudson 10.5" x 11.72", 156 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)	Essay by Robert Delpire This collection of pictures by an acknowledged master of photography, now updated to include 11 new images, forms a document of the spiritual and physical state of exile. The sense of private mystery that fills these photographs - mostly taken during Koudelka's many years of wandering through Europe and the United States since leaving his native Czechoslovakia - speaks of passion and reserve, of his "rage to see". The images here interrogate and penetrate, and reflect the nature of alienation. The accompanying essay by Robert Delpire invokes the soul of man in search of a spiritual homeland.
	Josef Koudelka, Josef Koudelka 2002, Torst 7" x 6.44", 188 pgs. List price: $17.95	Essay by Anna Farova "Known for his highly formalized, sensitive images of the vestiges of gypsy life, Czech photographer Josef Koudelka has been traveling the world since 1962, living as his subjects do, and documenting their communities in Eastern Europe, England, Ireland, France, and Spain. Focusing on the rituals of everyday life, on birth, marriage, and death, he has produced years of work, including the cycles reproduced here."—the publisher
	Chaos, Josef Koudelka 1999, Phaidon Press 11.9" x 16.95", 112 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)	Published to coincide with an exhibition of Josef Koudelka's work, this volume presents the photographs he has taken using a panoramic format camera over a 12 year period.
	Gypsies, Josef Koudelka 1992, Aperture 12.25" x 11.25", 133 pgs. (out of print, used copies available)	Afterword by Willy Guy, 60 duotone photographs "The photographer Josef Koudelka is as nomadic and unpredictable as the Gypsies whose existence he has brilliantly chronicled."
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	Making Chiken Soup, Les Krims 1972, Humpy Press (inquire for availability)	"A step-by-step visual guide with Krim's mother as the bare-breasted cook." - 28 sepia photos
	FICTCRYPTOKRIMS-OGRAPHS, Les Krims 1975, Humpy Press 6.5" x 6", 50 pp. (inquire for availability)	Introduction by Hollis Frampton Krims stages his pictures of nude models in a variety of settings and situations, photographs them using a SX-70 Polaroid camera. He then manipulates the images to exaggerate his surreal perceptions. - 40 color illustrations.
	The Little People of America 1971, Les Krims 1972, Self Published 6" x 5.5" (inquire for availability)	Introduction by A.D. Coleman. " ... Krims, who is the official photographer for the L.P.A. (Little Poeple of America), describes its membership as "the ultimate minority." The organization's choice of Krims, for the purpose of creating this document, indicates a trust of the photographer which I do not think has been broken. I find these images to be basically sympathetic." - from the introduction by A.D. Coleman - Boxed set of 24 sepia prints.
	The Incredible Case Of The Stack O'Wheats Murders, Les Krims 1972, Self Published 5.5" x 6" (inquire for availability)	"Krims' photographs in The Incredible Case of the Stack O'Wheats Murders" may not approach the quintessence of Clair's or Mortensen's, but by the addition of humor, their literary tropes and their visual delicacy are that much richer and more exquisite." - Robert A. Sobieszek - Boxed set of 10 sepia prints.
	The Deerslayers, Les Krims 1972, Self Published 5.5" x 6" (inquire for availability)	Boxed set of 23 sepia prints.
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	Germain Krull: Photographer of Modernity Kim Sichel 1999, MIT Press 12.43" x 9.88", 363 pgs. List price: $65.00	"Krull refused to limit herself to one long-term relationship, one geographical region, or one set of religious and moral beliefs. Contemporary critics ranked her with Man Ray and André Kertesz. Younger photographers such as Berenice Abbott looked up to her. Yet until recently the absence of an archive has made a proper evaluation of Krull's contribution to photography and to modernism difficult if not impossible. In this book Sichel examines Krull's autobiographical texts and photographic oeuvre to present and unravel the rich mythology that Krull fabricated around her life and work. The chapters follow the geographical and chronological sequence of Krull's life, moving from Munich to Moscow to Berlin to Amsterdam to Paris to Brazil to Africa to Bangkok and other locations. This book, which accompanies the first major retrospective exhibition on Krull, should secure Krull's rightful place among the masters of twentieth-century photography."
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	Native Mona Kuhn 2009, Steidl Photography International Hardbound, 11½" x 12¼", 88 pp List price: $55.00	“This work started as a personal journey. Metaphorically, I was thinking of a bird that flies back into the forest, searching for its childhood nest. The images here are a creation of my abstracted wishes and dreams. As I was searching, instead of home, I found an empty past, just traces of it. Yet, my journey was filled with new friendships and discoveries made along the way,” writes Los Angeles-based photographer Mona Kuhn about her journey back to her native Brazil after 20 years. More »
	Mona Kuhn Photographs, Mona Kuhn 2004, Steidl Publishing 10.5" x 11.25", 108 pp. List price: $50.00	The people in Mona Kuhn's photographs are nude but not naked. Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin. With a unique style, Kuhn's intimate photographs of both young and old are sensual compositions of skin and wrinkles, light and shadow, gestures and gazes. She creates taughtly composed images and balance sharply rendered portraits against blurred backgrounds to lure the eye and provoke the imagination.


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