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In Focus: Photographing Modern-Day Gold Miners in California

By David Schonauer   Tuesday April 29, 2014

The Great Recession has re-ignited the search for gold in the Golden State, notes Wired, which features photographer Sarina Finkelstein’s series “The New Forty-Niners,” portraits of modern-day prospectors in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. A Midwesterner, Finkelstein was reading a newspaper article about the new gold rush when she …

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