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Lynn Stern
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “new york city -based american photographer who creates black-and-white photographs made with natural light”. Today it says “american photographer”.
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Lynn Stern (born 1942) is an American photographer, known for her black and white photographs produced using natural light . Stern began to pursue photography as a career in the late 1970s. She lives and works in New York City. Stern's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Center for Creative Photography .
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new york city -based american photographer who creates black-and-white photographs made with natural light
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american photographer
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