Shooting a title sequence for "The Trouble with Dot & Harry" on my journey back to Cambridge (UK) from LA, all my shyness and fear of being upbraided for taking airport photos vanished. I was on a mission. I needed these images for my movie. A few years ago, I asked Tod Papageorge about his Central Park series -- was he self-conscious taking the photo of people in the park? "No," he said, "The people were transitory. Art is eternal." Tod seemed such a self-contained and modest man that the certainty and vehemence of his answer startled and impressed and stayed with me.
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