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Capturing a city's pulse in pictures `A Year in the Life' is labor of love for Brett
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The Boston Globe
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September 2, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright 2008 The Boston Globe. (Hide copyright information)
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To take a photograph can be a passionate journey. If you've never
felt that way about your impulse clicks of camera and cellphone,
talk to Boston Globe veteran Bill Brett. The Dorchester native
chased fires at 16 to capture them on film, and now, at 63, is still
sprinting with his camera.
"It's a photographer's marathon," Brett says of "Boston: A Year
in the Life," his photojournalism book documenting 372 straight days
of city life, starting with the Boston Marathon of April 16, 2007,
and ending with the one on April 21, 2008.
In between lie the tales of a city. There are its small joys,
like the May 8 image of two delighted children talking to Mrs.
Mallard and her eight babies in the Public ...
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