“Some
of my best friends are newspaper photographers . . . and yet I feel that when
one or two are gathered together for professional reasons you have a nuisance,
and that a dozen or more constitute a plague.”
—Heywood Broun (1888-1939), journalist,
columnist and member of the Algonquin Round Table, quoted in Robert E. Drennen, “Great
American Wit: Classic Humor of the Algonquin Round Table,” 2018.
• Editorial Comment: Perhaps a phalanx, or a phlatulence of photographers.
Weiner Dogs in Tutus Don’t Like Photographers
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