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The Liberators

Sure, legendary Harvard dropout Bill Cunningham may have been the first to democratise style by pointing his camera at Manhattan’s sartorially resplendent sidewalk habitués for his 1978 series On the Street. But it was Scott Schuman who in 2005 singlehandedly transformed street-style photography from a quirky, niche medium into the most powerful communication tool in modern style. His objective was poignantly Platonic. In

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