Alex Benjamin
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I have said it before, so FWIW................ i think she is one of THE Finest photographers that ever walked the Earth.
I will copy and paste that color photo from just a few posts above as an example. Keeping in mind, "Street Photography" is often VERY Fleeting and Unique.
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This is an extraordinary photograph. It's so interesting how photographers - Robert Franck and Gordon Parks being the two most famous examples - include the American flag as trope in order to make the photo both metaphorical but also clearly about America.
I would have love to see the complete roll of this one. It's more than plausible that the two women were looking in front of the them, waiting to cross the street, and I'm wondering if Mayer - feeling it would make a stronger picture - didn't say something, or at least purposefully moved uncomfortably close, in order to have both of them turn towards her.
I agree with you that street photography is fleeting and unique, but I also think that good street photographers also have a bit of the stage director in them.