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What stops you to raise up the viewfinder to your eye, if not an occasion? A shape or a pose that you like?

All that stuff I suppose. A lot of them I take are no good. I make a lot of errors. Once in a while I make something interesting. That’s the way it works.

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Interview excerpt with Lee Friedlander

from Maria, an edition from the Smithsonian Series Photographers at Work 

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