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52 Sundays

The conceit of 52 Sundays was to photograph every Sunday and choose one image. To me, the year 2001 always seemed mythic. It was the third millennium (when calculated from the traditional date of the birth of Jesus Christ) and the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey  made a huge impression on me when I was a kid. I’d be 44 years old, and as it approached I felt I should document it in some way. On Sunday, December 17, 2000 a  rainbow appeared over Manhattan and the essay began.

Our daily lives, like the universe, consist of long periods of mundane occurrences punctuated by brief and spectacular events. The word spectacular, like the word great, can define either good or bad. With this in mind I would set out on Sunday with my camera. I often wondered what that year would be like, and boy, we sure found out.

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