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    The Lightning Sheen of a Do-Rag

    by Durga Chew-Bose and John Edmonds Sep 17, 2018 3 minutes

    America, The Beautiful, 2017.

    While I can’t recall where it happened—where online, that is—I first encountered John Edmonds’s photography in 2013. I chanced upon his work only to feel somehow formerly familiar with it. Not the imagery, necessarily, but the pull of it. How it grazed on my consciousness, prompting me to immediately email my friend Sarah a one-line dispatch with two links to his portraits. The subject: his name in all lowercase—“john

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