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From The New York Times:

These days the photographer Dietmar Busse makes otherworldly compositions by painting developer directly onto photo paper with a brush. But “Fairytales 1991-1999” at Amant is an in-depth and exciting look at his earlier, more conventional photographs.

Black-and-white images of a mythologized, somewhat uncanny New York, they have more than a little Diane Arbus in them. Busse shoots a Central Park matron in her Easter Sunday best and backstage fashion models in the direst depths of heroin chic. Busse parts from Arbus, though, in his open, vulnerable, nonjudgmental eye. You never feel as if he was just looking for pictures. He was looking at human beings while they looked back at him.

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