Art: Taking the Long View

With an old camera, closing the horizon's circle

It started with a $1 purchase on a 1971 vacation jaunt. Jerry Dantzic, then 45, a photography professor, was picking over the odds and ends in the Freeport, Me., flea market when his eye caught an old photograph of some 2,000 Protestant ministers. He bought the picture and took it back to his Brooklyn studio. Looking at it with a magnifying glass, he marveled at the tack-sharp faces and the lack of dis tortion at the ends of the long horizontal photograph. "It suddenly occurred to me,"...

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