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...As usual, in New York, everything is torn down
Before you have had time to care for it.
Head bowed, at the shrine of noise, let me try to recall
What building stood here. Was there a building at all?
I have lived on this same street for a decade...

from "An Urban Convalescence" --James Merrill
 

As a fledgling street photographer, I quickly became aware of Time and its erosive power. My early photographs focused almost exclusively on the signs of an older culture that was holding on for dear life.

 
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I no longer believe that photographs can prevent the homely past from being plowed under; rather, I believe that photographs help us to remember; and even more importantly, they help us to decide what is worth remembering.
 
   

 

Photography is the inventory of mortality. . .

--Susan Sontag

 

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