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Article: 'DE-CLASSIFIED:THE HUMAN CONDITION'.(Scene)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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Famous photographer Diane Arbus looked at everyday human life and found there a rich vein of freakishness. Local photographer Mark Andrew, by contrast, looked at a place that abounds with the bizarre -- the online personal ads -- and found within it a river of ordinary humanity.
Personal ads must be almost as old as writing. You tell about yourself, you describe what you're looking for, you post it in some prominent place. Then you wait hopefully for a connection.
If you seek not a Prince Charming but instead a Daemonic Noble and Tortured Soul then please respond. I don't care how old or young you are. I do not seek someone who is perfect. I want someone ...