Eli Reed’s Long Walk Home – NYTimes.com

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Eli Reed’s Long Walk Home

A major retrospective of Eli Reed’s work shows how the Magnum photographer has sought beauty and understanding of the human condition.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/eli-reeds-long-walk-home/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

“I just kept working at things to try to understand where I was coming from,” he said. “If you don’t try, nothing will happen. This world is so temporary, it would be nice that when we leave it, we leave something of substance behind. I’m not a pacifist or a Pollyanna. I just know there is a better way of doing things.”