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New York City at night

Humans of New York and the Cavalier Consumption of Others

Source: The New Yorker

In this column, writer and critic Vinson Cunningham compares the work of Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton to earlier documentarians such as Jacob Riis.

This entry was posted in An Age of Realism and tagged Arts & Entertainment, Culture & Society, Opinion, People on February 1, 2017 by Anita Hacker.

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