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Frances Pellegrini will be exhibiting her vintage fashion and reportage photography this summer at the Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library. Pellegrini had a successful commercial career in New York from the late 1940’s through the1980’s.Pellegrini pioneered her roles as a photographer and an independent business woman. She was a contemporary of the movement that saw photographers like Margaret Bourke White and Walker Evans lend artistic ability to commercial purpose. Pelligrini herself worked for a decade at Harpers’ Bazaar with legendary art director Alexei Brodovitch. Her images reflect an elegantly understated style and modern sensibility. Before starting a commercial career, Pellegrini joined the historic Photo League and worked with photographers Dan Weiner and Sid Grossman; their use of photography as a tool for social change and personal expression are ideas found in Pellegrini’s early work that never disappears entirely. Pellegrini’s street works are intuitive, loosely handled and depict an intimacy with the city.