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ROLLING STONE IMAGES OF ROCK & ROLL |
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PHOTOGRAPHERS have access to times and places in the lives of artists that we do not, and it's a kick to sneak inside with them. Images caught at such times can document the crafting of an image, the act of refining in private the version of the self that will be presented to the public. That activity can be cynical or manipulative -- or it can be a process of discovery, a means of experimenting with possibilities, a justification of the conviction that identity is not fixed but endlessly malleable, subject to our desire to make who we are who we want to be.
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