Photography: One-Man Museum Without Walls

A street photographer sells splendid $6.00 visions of New York

The ocean liner QE 2 glides past the World Trade Center: elegant horizontal meeting towering verticals. The late afternoon sun lends pale, reflected fire, while the rest of the sky fills up with lowering clouds. How fortunate that Photographer George Forss, 40, happened to be there with his camera when all this happened. More fortunate still, Forss sells 11-in. by 14-in. copies of this photograph, exquisitely printed and carefully matted, for only $6.

The price is easy; finding Forss is something else again. The line forms somewhere in Manhattan. He is a...

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