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Photographs by Jerry Shore.
We see New York, and sometimes, as Henry James asked us to, we "do it"--explore and conquer it--but what we see when we see it is so far unlike what we experience when we're doing it that the difference itself can become a subject for art. The city sneaks up on us in pictures, and we are startled to see what it looks like even when what it looks like is just us, doing what we really do. We respond to truthful depictions of New York with the same surprise that we feel when we hear a recording of our own voice.
This surprise is one of the subjects of the extraordinary, lost--or, actually, never found in the first place--American ...