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George French delivered 20 years worth of stirring images, mostly black-and-white, of pastoral landscapes, but he was also a devoted chronicler of working people.
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A Flash of Joy, Captured at Sea

More than a century later Joanna Colcord’s classic shot of her dad still has more bite than any other image from Maine’s nautical history.

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