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NY MoMA Hires Makeda Best as Its New Chief Photo Curator

The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Makeda Best as its new chief curator for photography, finally filling a position that had been vacant since the departure of Clément Chéroux…

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Eugene Atget and Haunted Paris: Trees, Parks and Architecture

By Maria DiElsi

Atget made 10,000 photographs between 1897 and 1926, most prior to 1914, so that at the end of his career he was able to write in a letter,…

Collecting Resources

Contemporary Photography: Truth and 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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