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biblonia
Nov 22, 2021
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I went to a photography exhibition last weekend, and on display were items from Irving Penn's 1951 iconic Small Trades series, a collection of portraits of workers with the clothes and tools of their trades. I was struck by how some of the trades portrayed there no longer exist. The iceman is gone, and so is the milkman, the street photographer, or the …

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