Jeff Mermelstein – What if Jeff were a butterfly? Gaetano Pesce ISBN 978-1-912719-25-9

ISBN 978-1-912719-25-9

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Jeff Mermelstein – What if Jeff were a butterfly? Gaetano Pesce ISBN 978-1-912719-25-9Photojournalist Jeff Mermelstein has spent decades documenting New York. He sees what most of us miss: fast, funny, sharp, catching scenes from the playbook of everyday life in the big city. Here, he turns the camera inward, starting with flowers, which are perhaps the most photographed subject in history, and possibly the most avoided, for that very reason. From there, the work unfolds through pages of journals, family snapshots, phone notes, and