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Wait For Water: three times a week, drinking water comes to this suburb of 25,000 inhabitants. At variable pressure, it flows for about three hours in the morning from three small pipes. The queue forms early: first come, first served. The order is the order of the cans. But when the trickles cease not every can has been filled, and, facing the snow-covered mountain

Wait For Water: three times a week, drinking water comes to this suburb of 25,000 inhabitants. At variable pressure, it flows for about three hours in the morning from three small pipes. The queue forms early: first come, first served. The order is the order of the cans. But when the trickles cease not every can has been filled, and, facing the snow-covered mountain

1954

Paul Almasy French, born Hungary, 1906-2003

Gelatin silver print

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