The real thing.
Classical photojournalism may be dying, replaced by the noise of Instagram and cell phones, but one of its greatest exponents, Jill Freedman, is still going strong.
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The length to which she would go for a story or a good picture are remarkable. Click through to her blog here to read about her well known book Firehouse, documenting the tough lives of Bronx firemen.
She, Mary Ellen Mark and Jill Krementz are three women doing amazing work from the 1960s on, even if Annie L. is more well-known because of her commercial work. Freedman’s “Old News: Resurrection City” (1970) is still one of my favorite books.