NY Times: In Thousands of Images, a Photographer Builds a History in Harlem


	NY Times: In Thousands of Images, a Photographer Builds a History in Harlem
revenantdm
7-26-2008 10:24 AM
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photojournalism, history, harlem, arrt, photography
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The son of a rich sugar cane plantation factory i Haiti, Alix Dejean, who lives in Brooklyn, documents Harlem by photo. At 63 years old, hr has spent nearly 30 years walking from block to block, snapping portraits by day and parties and spectacles at night...
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In Thousands of Images, a Photographer Builds a History in Harlem
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Alix Dejean, in Harlem, where he has become a familiar face, and where his pictures show that “every day it’s a whole new thing.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/nyregion/21photographer.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">For nearly three decades, Mr. Dejean, 63, a small, neatly dressed man with intense eyes behind thin silver-rimmed frames, has been an unofficial neighborhood photographer, chronicling the famous, the infamous and the anonymous</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/nyregion/21photographer.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">Toting a leather bag, in which he carries his 35-millimeter Nikon, Mr. Dejean wanders from block to block, ready to snap portraits during the day and pictures at parties and other celebrations at night. “I’m the people’s photographer,” he said</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/nyregion/21photographer.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin"><DIV class="story first">
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<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/21/nyregion/20080721OPHOTOGRAPHER_index.html">Harlem Lens</A> 
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