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Criticism

Direct verdicts in craft language, with the evidence in the frame.

Bill Cunningham riding a bicycle in Midtown Manhattan — Bill Cunningham on his bicycle in Midtown, May 2016. He photographed for the Times for nearly four decades, declining every effort to make him a staff photographer: the blue jacket was a uniform of independence.

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