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Essay: Cowboys and Photojournalists - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com](http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/essay-7/):

While watching the 4-H youngsters going about their business at MontanaFair in Billings this month, I was struck by a parallel. Here I am in 2009, at a fair ground: a photojournalist, making pictures of cowboys in every direction I look. Don’t any of us know that none of us are supposed to exist?