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June 9, Paramount theater, Alex Chadwick interviews Eugene Richards

During Richards' presentation, Chadwick asked several times who Richards was working for during his early career, before assignments started coming in from the likes of LIFE magazine.
"Who's buying at this point?" Chadwick asked while viewing Richards' story on a Mississippi nursing home. "No one," Richards answered. On his stirring series about emergency workers in Denver, Richards acknowledged, "It started out as a magazine assignment and no one would publish it."- from Photo District News Online

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