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Showcase: It Couldn’t Be, but It Is

Stephen Ferry saw the magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez from his first hours in Colombia. Then, as Valerie Lapinski reports, he set out to photograph the source.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/showcase-119/

“I wish I could bring you your coffee right now,” he told them, “but there are eight highly armed men attacking the building at this moment. And they are stealing the payroll. But that should blow over in half an hour, and the coffee man will be able to get in.”

So it was that Stephen Ferry, one of the guests, got his first taste of the real in magic realism, on his first trip to Colombia in 1995.