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Authors: Patricia Bosworth

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“All Alex had talked about…”: Jane Winslow Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“which I had no interest in being…”: Ibid.

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“mainly because I refused…”: Ibid.

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“How do you feel?”: Ibid.

Chapter 14

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“There was a lot…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, Feb. 1980.

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“the muse, the mother…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.

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“Yes, it was the novel…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“the evenings were long…”: Mort Gottlieb to PB, interview, Sept. 10, 1981.

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“The contents of somebody’s bathroom…”: Peter Crookston to PB, interview, Dec. 14, 1982.

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“if we really pressed her”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

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“Diane was darting…”: Frances Gill to PB, interview, April 28, 1980.

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“It was a protective, sheltered world…”: Kate Lloyd to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.

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“We were insulated…”: Ibid.

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“That was the way…”: Ibid.

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“It was the subtext…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 10, 1979.

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“So we worked doubly hard…”: Kate Lloyd to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.

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“I captured them…”: Frances Gill to PB, interview, April 28, 1980.

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“you have humility…”:
Glamour,
April 1951.

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“She would say to me…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,”
MS Magazine,
Oct. 1972.

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“being scared of Doon…”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1982.

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“It was jolly”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, May 5, 1980.

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“She had dark circles…”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, March 28, 1980.

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“They seemed in good spirits”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“I think she made it herself”: Ibid.

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“Finally I did…”: Ibid.

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“God’s bathroom”: DA to Alex Eliot, letter, c. 1950.

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“Diane set her camera up…”: Stewart Stern to PB, letter, March 14, 1983.

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“full of halls”: DA to Alex Eliot, letter, c. 1950.

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“I feel on the brink…”: Ibid.

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“In them you see…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“at least four children”: Jane Winslow Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“Diane still looked sick…”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, May 19, 1979.

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“Maybe that’s why…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

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“Amy is like Allan…”: Ibid.

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“The studio was magnificent”: May Eliot to PB, interview, Jan. 22, 1983.

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“The purple was startling…”: Ibid.

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“They were extremely kind…”: Tod Yamashiro to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.

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“Sometimes I’d yell…”: Ibid.

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“But her collaboration…”: Ibid.

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“I can still see Diane…”: Ibid.

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PAT NAMES 20 MEN
…”:
New York Daily News,
March 15, 1955.

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“she had totaled 20…”: Ibid.

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“For having relations…”: Ibid.

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“They were playing…”: Ibid.

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“to express sympathy…”: Howard Nemerov,
Journal of the Fictive Life
(Rutgers University Press, 1965), p. 98.

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“She was probably numbed…”: Anita Weinstein to PB, interview, Feb. 18, 1980.

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“David kept on…”: Andrew Goodman to PB, interview, Sept 8, 1978.

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“David longed to move…”: Ibid.

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“The Philadelphia store had been…”: Walter Weinstein to PB, interview, Feb. 18, 1980.

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“They wanted the floors…”: Jerry Manashaw to PB, interview, May 20, 1981.

Chapter 15

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“They were starting…”: Tod Yamashiro to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.

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“Diane and Allan Arbus were…”: Fran Healy to PB, interview, Oct. 29, 1979.

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“But to get a piece…”: Art Kane to PB, interview, Dec. 1979.

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“Diane and Allan were leading…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 21, 1979.

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“because Diane and Allan were incapable…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“The fashion/ad crowd…”: Charles James to PB, interview, date unavailable.

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“No more parties…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“They asked some…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

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“It was in the days…”: Nancy Berg to PB, interview, Nov. 20, 1979.

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“perhaps the last and greatest achievement…”: John Szarkowski,
Mirrors and Windows, American Photography Since I960
(N.Y. Graphic Society, Boston), p. 17.

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“Once just for the hell of it…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“Diane and Allan were classy…”: Miki Denhoff to PB, interview, Aug. 16, 1979.

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“the work of Diane and Allan…”: Nancy Hall Duncan,
The History of Fashion Photography
(Alpine Books, 1979), p. 224.

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“but Diane’s crude portraits…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“It’s rough on a guy…”: Rick Fredericks to PB, interview, Feb. 1980.

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“Allan was technically excellent”: Fran Healy to PB, interview, Oct. 29, 1979.

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“but Nick disliked Diane…”: Frederick Eberstadt to PB, interview, Feb. 5, 1979.

Chapter 16

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“It was the start…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.

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“Mommy, Daddy, Howard…”: Ibid.

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“I wanted D to acknowledge…”: Ibid.

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“I finally could stand it…”: Roy Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.

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“Anyhow I let Gertrude…”: Ibid.

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“I would dream about Diane…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.

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“we’d talk a long time…”: Ibid.

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“When clothes belong to a person…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.

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“grasp at straws”: Ibid.

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“a very tall ugly dumb…”: Anne Tucker to PB, phone interview, Nov. 1981.

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“off-limit experiences.”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, March 6, 1979.

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“He was a Greek god…”: Ibid.

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“We’d been best friends…”: Ibid.

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“right away…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980. Ibid.

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“She had no real interest…”: Ibid.

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“a great artist…”: Ibid.

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“you can do anything…”: Ibid.

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“You owe it to yourself”: Ibid.

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“Ma had always thought…”: Amy Arbus, interview on radio station WBAI, Jan. 3, 1973.

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“I learned from his impatience…”: Richard Avedon in Owen Edwards, “Zen and the Art of Alexey Brodovitch,”
American Photographer,
June 1979.

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“He didn’t care…”: Art Kane to PB, interview, Sept. 27, 1978.

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“It was a remarkable discipline…”: Owen Edwards, “Zen and the Art of Alexey Brodovitch.”

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“Set yourself a problem…”: Frank Zachary to PB, interview, Nov. 2, 1978.

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“The life of a commercial photographer…”: Art Kane to PB, interview, Sept. 27, 1978.

Chapter 17

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“the most instinctive eyes…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1979.

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“Can’t you tie your own shoes?” from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.

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“He thought…”: Ibid.

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“I was praised…”: Ibid.

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“I hate pretty prints”: Ibid.

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“It’s exciting…”: Ibid.

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“They said…”: Ibid.

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“You couldn’t get a word in…”: Irene Fay to PB, interview, June 21, 1981.

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“photography is the art…”: Ben Fernandez to PB, interview, Jan. 9, 1979.

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“Carmel used to say…”: from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.

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“I asked him what was cooking…”: Ibid.

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“Later at a Museum of Modern Art…”: Ibid.

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“Evsa was as talented…”: Ibid.

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“walked across Asia…”: Ibid.

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“But they doted on each other…”: Irene Fay to PB, interview, June 21, 1981.

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“a virtual international report…”: Peter Bunnell;
Helen Gee and the Limelight
(catalog: Feb. 12-March 8, 1977, Carlton Galleries, 127 E. 69 St., N.Y. 10021).

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“The camera is an instrument…”: from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.

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“photograph a face like a Picasso”: Ibid. “Don’t shoot…”: designed by Marvin Israel, foreword by Bernice Abbott,
Lisette Model
(Aperture, 1979), p. 9.

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“little balloons…”: from an unpublished essay on Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.

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“What I want to photograph…”: Doon Arbus, “Diane Arbus, Photographer,”
MS Magazine,
Oct. 1972.

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“She liked being afraid…”: Ibid.

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“If I ever went away for a weekend…”: Alan Levy, “Working with Diane Arbus: A Many Splendored Experience,”
Art News,
Summer 1973.

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“Oh, you look terrific! …”: Barbara Brown to PB, phone interview, March 9, 1980.

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“I was terrified most of the time…”: David Nemerov to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1980.

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“The very process…”: Barbara Brown to PB, phone interview, March 9, 1980.

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“I never take it off”: David Newman to PB, interview, Jan. 31, 1980.

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“She learned from Model…”: Peter Bunnell, “Diane Arbus,”
Print Collectors Newsletter,
Jan./Feb. 1973.

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“The androgenous, the crippled…”: Lisette Model, interview on CBS-TV
Camera Three,
Nov. 12, 1972.

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“I’d be fascinated by…”:
Diane Arbus, Aperture
Monograph (1972).

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“There was a tremendous fantasy quality…”: Lisette Model to PB, interview, Feb. 6, 1979.

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“Do you know any streetwalkers?”: Ibid.

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“Diane stopped…”: Bob Meservey to PB, interview, May 19, 1979.

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“She was a mentor…”: Alex Eliot to PB, interview, July 20, 1980.

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“An extraordinary love…”: unpublished interview with Lisette Model by Philip Lopate.

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“Until I studied with Lisette…”:
Newsweek,
March 20, 1967.

Chapter 18

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“Diane always wore…”: Jill Isles to PB, interview, April 14, 1981.

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“Aren’t you ever worried…”: Renee Phillips to PB, interview, Feb. 22, 1981.

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“Independence and purity…”: Ibid.

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“It’s a testing…”: DA to Studs Terkel, interview, Dec. 1969.

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“Oh she is gorgeous”: DA, letter to Meserveys (undated).

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“sort of weird rarefied air.”: Ibid.

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“I think it was hard for her…”: Peggy Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.

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“A fairly agreeable…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.

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“They were obviously very close”: Bernard Malamud to PB, interview, March 5, 1980.

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“modern—chic…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.

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“important and beautiful.”:
New York Times Book Review,
July 17, 1955.

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“he never made comments…”: Howard Nemerov to PB, interview, July 20, 1979.

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“You get the out-of-town…”: Renée Sparkia to PB, interview, March 12, 1980.

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“She could be a terrific cook…”: Tina Fredericks to PB, interview, Oct. 23, 1979.

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“who was so handsome…”: Tami Grimes to PB, interview, Sept. 1979.

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“They seemed glamorous…”: Sybille Pearson to PB, interview, Oct. 22, 1979.

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“She was so sensuous…”: Ibid.

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“I always felt wanted…”: Ibid.

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“which was a geometric study…”: Emile de Antonio to PB, interview, Oct. 1980.

Chapter 19

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“It was a rather…”: Cheech McKensie to PB, interview, May 1980.

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“Mary wasn’t allowed to be an artist…”: Claire Kirby to PB, interview, Nov. 1979.

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“Bob kept saying…”: Louis Faurer photographs from Philadelphia and New York, 1937-1943. Compiled and Edited by Edith A. Tenolli and John Gossage. Art Gallery University of Maryland College Park, March 10-April 23, 1981.

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“Robert was one…”: Louis Silverstein to PB, interview, January 1980.

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“I shot and developed…”: Robert Frank to Walker Evans, Yale Photography Seminar, 1971.

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“To Robert Frank…”: Jack Kerouac, preface to Robert Frank,
The Americans.

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“both situational and contextual…”: Garry Winogrand,
Public Relations
(Museum of Modern Art, 1977) p. 11.

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“stalking, observing…”: Robert Frank to Dennis Wheeler,
Criteria,
June 1977.

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“It was an insane time”: Ibid.

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“It was insane”: Ibid.

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“I learned a lot…”: Ibid.

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“We were a scruffy, excitable…”: Buffie Johnson to PB, interview, Dec. 17, 1979.

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“Everybody was in everybody else’s pocket”: Sondra Lee to PB, interview, Nov. 10, 1980.

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“It didn’t matter…”: Loring Eutemay to PB, interview, Feb. 1, 1979.

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