Paul McDonough (photographer)

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Paul A. McDonough (born 1941) is an American street photographer, living in New York City. [1] [2] [3] His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York [4] and in 1981 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. [5]

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