On Assignment: The Big Ring

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DAVID W. DUNLAP – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

There are plenty of distractions at the circus, where every character seems slightly larger — and a whole lot more colorful — than in real life.

That’s exactly what Damon Winter didn’t want when he envisioned a series of portraits of the circus performers in the Coney Island Boom a Ring, a special summer presentation by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey that opened on Thursday.