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Bisson Freres, Vallée de Chamonix vue du Chapeau, c. 1860


Brassai, title and date unknown


Bruce Davidson, Brooklyn Gang, 1959


Diane Arbus, albino sword swallower at a carnival, 1970


Edward Steichen, the maypole (Empire State Building), 1932


Eugene Atget, un coin, rue de seine, 1924


Heinrich Kuhn, The Kuhn Children, 1912


Henri Cartier Bresson, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, Italy, 1933


Robert Frank, Rodeo - New York City, 1954


Sally Mann, 1989


Lisette Model, ca. 1939-1945

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce