“Negatives filed in drawers clamor for attention and light,” Sylvia Plachy wrote. “I seem to hear them. As in the streets of New York I look for what once was and still is and if it speaks to me.”

With those words on March 9, 2005, Ms. Plachy inaugurated the Lens series in the Metro Section

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