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"Having photographed since he was 16, and having exhibited and published his photographic art for almost 35 years, Mills is a mid-career artist who has produced three distinct but interlocking series. He is best known for the surreal photomontages and collages. The other two series are the ongoing affair, through photography, with his wife Mary Del Popolo, and black and white street work, out of which 'Inner City,' the photographs featured here, was conceived. The work in this book begins with Mills walking the streets of Washington, DC, with his 35-mm camera. People and their detritus are the focal points of these pictures. His subjects are not Washington's elite, but those whose situations in life are more peripheral and vulnerable. The majority of the images portray children, street prophets, handicapped beggars, amputees, and the homeless as well as those who are mentally unstable or distraught"--From essay by Anne Tucker ("On the edge of horror and beauty").
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