Photographer Bob Brown knows Richmond better than most governors, but hes about to retire after m
RICHMOND — It’s probably not true that Bob Brown traded tomato plants with Thomas Jefferson or sipped bourbon with Abraham Lincoln, though you might hear such tales around Virginia’s Capitol.
But it is a fact that Brown began photographing the General Assembly for the Richmond Times-Dispatch so long ago, almost half the current members of the House of Delegates hadn’t even been born.
Since 1970, Brown has been a near-constant presence in the halls of Jefferson’s Capitol — neck slung with cameras, Canon raised to his eye for a quick shot of lawmakers huddling, scratching, yawning, guffawing.
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