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						"The Torn Note"
						            Profile portrait of Claudia Carter in vintage style of Greta Garbo, photographed in my studio.
                        			 
			
				Biography: I was born in the south of France. My heritage is of French/Italian lineage. My family and I moved to New York when I was ten years old. 
I began learning photography when I quit my day-job in a small advertising agency for a job in a large commercial photo studio.  
My ambition was to become a professional freelance commercial photographer and I learned by watching the studio photographers shoot in the daytime, then shooting for myself with models at night. 
I learned more by artistic experimentation than technical correctness since I had no technical knowledge. This was in the film era,...			 
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