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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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Armand Henrion (1875 – 1958) was a Belgian-born artist. He contributed to the Expressionist movement, worked in France and became a French citizen. And he liked to paint self-portraits – hundreds of them – in which he is dressed as a clown (more Pierrot than Bozo). Pierrot...
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age
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