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Our 10-minute taxi ride from central Porto is a muddled maze of twisty, narrow, and steep-hilled cobblestone streets that ends in the historic Miragaia neighborhood, a couple of blocks from the Douro River. Families stroll with dogs and children scamper as sunset nears. A pickup game of basketball is about to end. Tourists board the…
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Publisher Indiana University Press | Author Steve Raymer
Reviewed by Caroline Erskine
In the world of publishing, there are some books that fit into the world you inhabit — by work, or simply by life experience. You tend to see those books through the small details that make a life in journalism so interesting. Steve Raymer’s Somewhere West of Lonely: My Life in Pictures is one of those books. Raymer’s career with the National Geographic ran from the early 1970s through the 1990s into the new century — a period sometimes described as the golden years of photojournalism. The magazines had big budgets, pages to fill, and were fiercely competitive. That competition made its way down the food chain to the photographers themselves.The photographers who thrived in that era were driven to tell stories with pictures, to follow the news, to relate the state of humanity. Read More
