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The colorful, eccentric, mostly elderly, women that shopped and lived in that neighborhood were her first impression of New York City. In DeLattre’s own words, “they looked so put together with makeup, outfits, and hairdos but at the same time so vulnerable.I related to that. I loved how they dressed up to go to the bank and the grocery store and run every day errands.” Almost every day from 1979 through 1980, she shot 120 Kodak color negative film with a TLR Mamiya which allowed her to remain anonymous when capturing street photographs of passersby. “It was an opportunity to photograph a passing generation. … Color was integral to my images in mood and description of the people and time. Color is still my main focus today, although in a more formal way than my street photos of the 1970s and 1980s.”
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