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Article: A New York street photographer keeps on clicking.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)(Vivian Cherry)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- March 26, 2008
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Byline: Susan Hartman Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
New York -- Twice a week, Vivian Cherry - a veteran street photographer - leaves her midtown Manhattan apartment and gets on a bus.
"I never have any idea what I'm going to shoot," she says of her routine. But she does have a destination in mind - maybe East Harlem, where she was born, or the Lower East Side.
When she arrives - sometimes finding herself on a block she hasn't seen in 50 years - she wanders past bodegas, through parks and street fairs, like a patient hunter.
"I try to be invisible," Ms. Cherry says. Thin and white-haired, clad in jeans and sneakers, she ...