The Man Who Waited, Photographer Robert Bergman by Judith H. Dobrzynski for WSJ
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Judith H. Dobrzynski for the WSJ, "The pictures are wonders, sharp, beautifully lit, with a background that can look staged. It's not, and the lighting is natural. Mr. Bergman shoots with a 35-millimeter Nikon camera, always asking permission of his chosen people, but never posing them. He does the moving around, somehow managing in the viewfinder to fuse face and setting. For any given person, he says, there are "only a few shutter releases," though he has taken "thousands of bad pictures that are not up to what I want to say."
