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Lisa Holden: A More Complex Feminist Path, Exploring Emotion, Identity and Vulnerability

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I made several visits to the Netherlands. I had good reason to. In addition to new museums opening up--Huis Marseilles and Foam in…

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20th-Century Mexico in Photographs

By Matt Damsker

More than anything, Mexico is its people--stewards and survivors of a harsh, sun-raked land who energize their desert with unmistakeable culture and character. The majority…

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CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY: TRUTH & THE BURDEN OF REALITY

There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality.   The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…

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