Why?

“Well, you know, I'm a Village kid. And his pictures of the Village back then, like from '63, were raw. He was shooting a lot of the artists that were hanging outside of the buildings. People on the corner of 8th and Macdougal, there's a coffee shop right now, it was the 8th Street Bookstore. And people used to go there to fucking put like a crate down, and stand up, and start ranting about shit. Like socialism, and Marxism. It's like the Bible for me. I got it signed by him before he died, like ten years ago.”
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- Ricky Powell, Photographer