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Alex Harris

COMING HOME, P. 46

A photographer for five decades, Alex Harris taught at Duke University, where he founded the Center for Documentary Studies and . Harris arrived in New Mexico at age 22 to work with psychiatrist. For “Coming Home,” writer Bill Shapiro invited Harris to revisit those same mountain villages he photographed as a younger man. “My wife, Margaret, and I were able to spend time with our grandson, Lyle, and to reconnect with old friends and make some new ones,” he says. Harris is currently working on a book of photographs and visual memoir, , with his daughter, Eliza, who took the above photo.

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