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Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Photographer in the Picture

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

Catch the man – and the woman – behind the camera in a set of photographs recently added to the Library of Congress Flickr photostream. Drawn from multiple collections and ranging from the mid-1800s to the modern day, the Photographer in the Picture set shows photographers at work, sometimes catching them only in shadow or …