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Day 5 Cold and gray this morning. In a Madison Avenue diner, I try to get warm, but the tea I order is so hot it’s undrinkable. Oh well. I’ll…

Day 9 New York feels like one big party this Friday morning. It’s the weekend of all the contemporary art fairs (Armory, Scope, Volta, Independent) and I’m heading to Chelsea to…

Day 10 Today I’m meeting Larry Miller in one of those tower buildings that house so many treasures. The doorman calls me “hon” and tells me the gallery is on the third…

Day 12 Today I feel I’m getting closer to the finish line. Tomorrow I’m submitting my pictures and texts of these last two months to Jean-Jacques and his team at La…

Day 5 I’d been wanting to go for a long time. No, honestly. At least ever since my university days in Paris, where I studied British literature. That’s when I…

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? Casually, compulsively, and mostly at flea markets, where I bought cartes de visite portraits, real-photo…

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? My parents would bring me to MOMA when I was a kid and I would…

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? In my book The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious I talk about my first…